RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 13

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“THE FIRE BRIGADE” “The Fire Brigade,” starring May McAvoy, will be screened at the Rialto and Regent Theatres to-night. In this picture she plays the part of a milionaire’s daughter who adores her father not only for himself, but for the numerous benefactions he bestows upon the community in which they live. When James Corwin is credited with having made possible the building of the magnificent Reid Orphanage, at the formal dedication of that important institution, she blushes for sheer pride of him as he smilingly steps forward, bareheaded, to acknowledge the plaudits of the crowd. The gripping drama of the story surges like a mighty torrent when it is discovered that Helen’s father is the secret head of the Wain wright Building Company, which is erecting shoddy schools and orphanages everywhere and robbing the State of millions of pounds. The drama develops into a hurricane of public indignation and horror when the Reid Orphanage takes fire and before their eyes burns like # matchwood with the children trapped and screaming inside.

A little lie east into the air will fall to earth, and no one knows where. And what is more to the point, no one can tell in advance just what the consequences of telling the lie may be. This aptly and graphically is illustrated in “The Bachelor’s Baby.” a Master Picture to be released soon. Helene Chadwick as the girl who tells the lie to a motor cop in order to escape arrest and a possible sixty-day gaol sentence, little realised into what scrapes the falsehood would get her.