LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 342, 1 May 1928, Page 15

LYRIC

“SHARPSHOOTERS” “Lovelorn” is the first feature on the programme to be shown at the Lyric Theatre to-night. The story is concerned with two sisters, one of whom is a frivolous girl and scorns the advances of a young man long loved in secret by her more demure sister. The roles of the two sisters are played by Mglly O’Day and Sally O’Neill. The second feature is • Sharpshooters,” starring George O’Brien and Lois Moran in a comedy-drama, with a. background of the American Navy, Morocco and New York. While the famous picture, ‘’What “rice Glory,” still carries on, its starring players, Victor McLaglen and Dolores Del Rio, are appearing in their atest, “Loves of Carmen,” a Fox picture directed by Raoul Walsh. The Patsy,’* Marion Davies's new starring vehicle which is coming; to Auckland soon, is based on the fam°us stage play which has had a sensational run in every large city of the Lmted States. King Vidor directs for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer from a script °y Agnes Christine Johnston. The l tor >* is a humorous farce based on the city life of a real American family. Douglas Fairbanks has no concern cinema angels. He sets out to tell Plain tale of adventure, and does his job excitingly well. In his latest picUre, ‘The Gaucho,” he repeats his old * n a new setting, and manages obe quite entertaining. The inspiraon for the film came, it seems, directly r °m his visit to the famous shrine afc fj^ rt } es ’ France. He was greatly af--B n ,led by the sight of many stricken na maimed pilgrims, as well as by sht CUres * The mighty influence of the for 1 ?® suggested a fundamental theme v j 1113 next production, and Fairbanks f the conflict of the sinister , of sreed and those of faith. The ® , is "The Gaucho,” -with its backcrm U ? d °* the Andes and the pampas th?n tries of South America. The big *1 is a cattle stampede.

EVERYBODY’S “THE KING OF KINGS” “The King of Kings,” now' being sown twice daily at the Everybody’s Theatre, is nearing the end of its Auckland season. The intensely dramatic cleansing of the temple, Christ and the little children, Judas and his 30 pieces of silver, the craft and wickedness of Caliphas, Pilate at the judgment of Christ, are portrayed with acknowledged skill. The tone has been described as lofty throughout and the treatment reverent. A critic writing in the “Christian World” has said of the picture;—“lf anyone had told me that the Crucifixion could be enacted on the screen without any offence to devout feeling or fastidious taste, I should have dismissed the suggestion as wildly impossible. Now I have seen it and all I can say about it is that I can say nothing about it. The Broadway crowd was silent, softened, spellbound. I walked out with my friend and we had nothing to say. It was a long time before we could speak.” GRAND “LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT” Strange secrets of Scotland Yard are bared in Lon Chaney’s picture, “London After Midnight,” an uncanny mystery play now being’ shown at the Grand Theatre for the last three nights. Chaney plays a Scotland Yard man in an amazing adventtire in a haunted house, with Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall and a notable cast. MUNICIPAL CONCERT TOWN HALL TO-MORROW An all-operatic programme will bo presented in the Town Hall to-morrow night by the Auckland Municipal Band and soloists, and Madame Irene Ainsley’s Quartette Party. The composers to be drawn upon are Gounod, Wagner, Verdi, Bellini, Friml and Stothart and Puccini. Booking is at Messrs. Lewis Eady, Ltd. “THE MERRY WIDOW” COMING TO AUCKLAND During tlie making of "The Merry Widow,” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production which is coming to Auckland shortly, two thousand extras were interviewed at the studio. From among these, whole families of Rumanians, Serbians, and Bulgarians were engaged to appear in the big scenes of this production. The national costumes of the tiny principality of Montenegro, now a part of Yugoslavia, were duplicated exactly. The women’s costumes consisted of highly-coloured, very full dresses and fancy designs of hats, while the men’s costume consisted of either full, baggy, red trousers with boots, or green, semi-uniforms with much braid, knickers, and white stockings, ••The Merry Widow” was adapted from the popular stage success by Vincent Leon, Leo Stein and Franz Lehar. and John Gilbert as "Prince Danilo heads the cast of the screen version. Lawrence Gray, who has a featured role in Marion Davies's "The Patsy,” soon to come to Auckland, lias just built a new 100.000-dollar home in Beverly Hills. He lias furnished the house largely with South American furintur© sent him by liis brother, who is general manager for a large oil company.