LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 14

LYRIC

“HAMILTON HUSBANDS” “Cynthia, Cynthia, why don’t you get married?” Helen and Grace would ask this question a score of times a day. “Father says neither of us can marry until you are off his hands; he’s not going to have you left on the shelf, like Aunt Lydia was, he says. Why don’t you marry, Cynthia?” Cynthia’s answer was always the same—“ Because I am not in love.” Sisters nagged, father urged, and at last Cynthia decided to clear the way for her relatives, and in an unusual manner—a bold way! Such is the opening of the picture, “Slightly Used,” which was shown at the Lyric Theatre last evening. May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel were the leading players. She absents herself from home for a night, and returns feigning tipsiness, and averring that she is the wife of one Major John Smith, of the Flying Corps, who was called to join his outfit immediately after the preacher had tied the untieable knot. Her ittjse works well, and she carries on a correspondence with him in which she is both receiver and sender of news. But alas! there was a Major John Smith in the Flying Corps, and terrible things threatened when he put in an appearance claiming his wife! The second attraction is the New Zealand-made film, “Hamilton Husbands,” about which so much local interest has been taken. The background is laid in the Hopuhopu military camp at Ngaruawahia, and at Hamilton. The story is a most amusing one about three husbands who were as untrue as their wives—except that neither side knew of the other’s infamy. Pictures of the Kingsford Smith trans-Pacific flight, entitled “Monarchs of the Air,” were also shown.