EVERYBODY’S AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 16

EVERYBODY’S AND TIVOLI

“LADY BE GOOD” AND “CHINESE PARROT” The hectic and uncertain life of the second-rat© vaudeville actor is the unusual and interesting background for “Lady Be Good,” the First National feature comedy which will be shown at Everybody’s and Tivoli Theatres this, evening.

Split-week engagements in small towns, dismal week-ends in theatrical hotels, cold theatres and dingy dressing rooms, the constant fear of having one’s act cancelled, and the constant hope of hitting the “big time” —of these components are the lives of the lesser vaudeville play ers made. “Lady Be Good” has as its principal characters the members of a typical vaudeville bill, from the acrobats to the song and dance men.

Jack Mulhall and Do.rotliy Mackaill are featured in the picture, with a supporting 1 cast which includes John Miljan, James Finlayson, Dot Farley, Nita Martan, Yola d’Avril, Eddie Clayton, Jay Eaton and others. With a plot exceptionally strong in originality, “The Chinese Parrot,” which will be the second feature at both theatres, has everything that holds the audience in an unshakable grip. This Universal-Jewel production, is an unusually absorbing drama written around the red, raw elements of life and love, and the lure of gold. The thread of the story has been unravelled with consummate skill by Paul Leni, the noted Continental director and the all-star cast of the picture is a, roster of famous screen players, including Marian Nixon as the winsome heroine, Edmund Burns, Hobart Bosworth, Sojin, Captain Albert Conti, Florence Turner, Fred Esmelton, Edgar Kennedy, Slim Summerville, Dan Mason, Anna May Wong, George Kuwa and Etta Lee.