PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 354, 15 May 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“THE COUNT OF TEN” “The Count of Ten,” a thrilling boxing picture is now being shown at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres. The story concerns the attempts of a promising young prize-fighter to provide a worthy home and livelihood for his pretty young wife and her lazy father and young brother. The two latter people are the flaw in an otherwise happy home, and when the young brother forges a cheque, requiring the immediate payment of an immense sum of money, and misleads the boxer by intimating that the money is wanted for hospital attendance on his wife, he is compelled to enter into a fight with a broken hand, after having quarrelled with his manager, who was against the fight. Needless to say,, the hero loses the fight and gets a terrific punishment. This brings his late manager to his side, and he exposes the family. The climax is very gripping and refunds off a thoroughly entertaining picture. Charles Ray as the prize-fighter and Jobyna Ralston as his wife play the principal roles. Others in the cast are James Gleason, Edythe Chapman, Arthur Lake and Charles Sellon. The second feature is Harry Langdon’s great comedy, “The Chaser.” “The Chaser” is the story of a man, a wife, a mother-in-law with one of those dispqsitions, and a bevy of beautiful girls! Twenty-five of Hollywood’s Bathing Beauties were engaged to appear in the production. Gladys McConnell is again cast in the feminine lead, while Bud Jaimison and Helen Hayward have important roles.

Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin are preparing stories for their next United Artists Pictures, which will be released this year. Merna Kennedy, leading lady in “The Circus,” w-ill again appear opposite Chaplin.