ROYAL, KINGSLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 14

ROYAL, KINGSLAND

“GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY” Tom Mix, playing the starring role of Tom Gordon, a detective, in ‘The Great K and A Train Robbery,” now being shown at the Royal Theatre, Kingsland, disregards the danger of death from bullets as he flees from a gang of desperadoes and turns aside to rescue a girl whose horse has bolted, and who has caught her foot in a stirrup and left her head hanging near the runaway’s flying hoofs. Gordon saves her in spite of her fight to escape him because she believes he’s a bandit and the pursuers are a sheriff’s posse. After she has had time to think it over, the girl concludes such a chivalrous man could not be an outlaw, and when he reappears in her own father’s home, again apparently a desperado, the girl decides one good turn deserves another, and hides him in a closet of her bedroom, so that he can elude her father’s pursuit. The second feature on the programme is “Silk Stockings,” starring Laura La Plante in a happy comedy of modern life.

LUNA PARK

NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s “Coney Island,” Luna Park, will provide a feast of fun and frolic this evening. The entertainments are novel and thrilling, and no other town in the Dominion has anything like them. During the summer season the park was very popular, and indications are that the winter season will prove just as strong an attraction.

VICTOR McLAGLEN

WITH BRILLIANT CAST With Victor McLaglen, the star of “A Girl In Every Port,” are ten lovely damsels who portray his loves in various parts of the world. The players chosen are Louise Brookes, who plays Marie, the French girl; Myrna Loy, as the girl from Singapore; Eileen Sedgwick and Gertrude Short, are shown as the quiaint little Gretchens from Holland; ' Natalie Joyce, Dorothy Matthews and Elena Jurado are those who cross “Spike Madden’s” path in Panama; Sally Rand is the girl who livens his leave in Bombay; Maria Casajuana plays “Chiquin” whom he met at Buenos Ayres, while Gladys Brockwell is cast as Madame Flore, an exotic and cruel mistress of a gambling hall in Shanghai. McLaglen is said to give an even better interpretation of a “hard-boiled” role than he did in “What Price Glory,” ! the former Fox triumph.