LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 15

LYRIC

“SALLY IN OUR ALLEY” “Sally in Our Alley” had its first showing at the Lyric Theatre last night, and no doubt the majority of the audience are now telling their relatives and friends about a little tenement waif whose antics and grimaces made them laugh and cry, and how three kindly old bachelors amused them with their task of fathering this homeless orphan. But with these laughable situations is pathos that will tug at your heartstrings. Shirley Mason plays Sally 'Williams, a wholesome tenement waif who helps her mother, a poor laundry worker. Her mother dies and Sally is adopted by three kindly old men. Sally brightens the home for this unusual trio, and is happy in her surroundings. But a wealthy aunt returns from abroad and invites Sally to make her home with her. She is not over-en-thused at the opportunity, but unselfish foster-fathers persuade her that it is for her own benefit. Sally is introduced into society, and has many wealthy suitors, but the thought of Jimmie, the plumber lad who loves her so devotedly, prompts Sally to disregard even social position. There comes a day when Sally must make a decision, and we have a delightful finish with the story ending just as you would want it to end. Shirley Mason plays the same sort of role as in her previous pictures, u type in which she is unsurpassed. Alec Francis, Paul Panzer and William 11 Strauss, three real veterans of th< screen, give their usual finished performance. Richard Arlen is a convincing Jimmie. A delightful comedy, “Cradh Snatchers,” a gazette, and through «1 enjoyable music from the Lyric Orchestra. complete the evening’s entertainment.