EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 15

EMPIRE

TWO BIG FEATURES “The Wrong Mr. Wright,” starring Jean Herscholt, will be shown at the Empire Theatre to-night. The action begins with Jean, the old-maidish vice-president of a nearly defunct corset manufacturing com-

pany, taking his first vacation in 20 years to visit his boyhood sweetheart. What happens when he finds her rolling in avoirdupois and surrounded by several Incorrigible children. provides the basis of laugh after laugh. Enid Bennett as tl

detective, who tries to worm a confession out of Jean, only to tail m love with him herself, is excellently cast. She never overacts although it could easily bo done in th© part she portrWalter Hiers, a featured comedian in his own right, does some exceedingly funny acting as do Eorothy Devore and Edgar Kennedy. f> • The Cat and the Canary, starring Laura La Plante, will also be screened.

••Browning’s Babies,” the first dancact organised, trained and produced exclusively for the screen by any studio organisation, are the latest additions to the Metro -Golclwyn-Mayer forces. Tod Browning, the famous director, organised these “babies “The Big City,” Lon Chaney’s latest starring picture. In order to secure the youthful buoyancy which he considered to bo absoltuely necessary, and which is sometimes lacking in professional dancers, Browning selected his ‘babies from the ranks of Hollywood’s younger extra girls, choosing .them for their beauty and vivacity.