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“IN OLD KENTUCKY” Just as Charles Dazey’s old racing melodrama proved a startling stage success for many years, "In Old Kentucky,” which is now at the Grand Theatre, has proved a sensational screen success. The picture, based on an original screen play by A. F. Younger, is said to have been suggested by the Dazey play, and has some of the earmarks of that old favorite of the speaking stage, yet it is far better from an entertainment viewpoint because it has been modernised and the chaiactrs move in ous own times, act as we would under similar circumstances and look like the people of to-day. James Murray, who is hailed_ as a new screen discovery, and who is om of the most interesting of the - 1 ®" male characters of the scren. has the leading male role, while Helene Costello .-een in the featured feminine lead. and tindale.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 13
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149GRAND Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 13
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