CAPITOL AND EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 15

CAPITOL AND EDENDALE

“WIFE SAVERS” AND “DOOMSDAY” One of the best of the uproarious Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton comedies, entitled ,f "Wife Savers.” will bo shown at the Capitol and Edend le Theatres this evening. The story starts when, in the old days home in Brooklyn, Beery is a head waiter in a restaurant, and Hatton is one of his awed assistants. The war puts their positions in reverse, and Hatton is a cocky lieutenant, while Beery is a lowly kitchen mechanic. Hatton, being quite a man with the ladies, annexes a village pippin named Colette, while the best that Beery can do is the town husband-seeker. An ideal love story set against the picturesque background of rural England describes “Doomsday,” a picturisation of Warwick Deeping’s novel, j which is the second feature. Florence Vidor is the star of this picture and Gary Cooper has the leading male role. “Doomsday” is more than just a love story. It is a story of life and life’s vital problems. It depicts in vivid fashion a girl’s struggle between her desire for love and her dread of work, with the intense longing she has for the luxuries that have always been denied her. “GARDEN OF ALLAH” AT GRAND The desert: The Garden of Allah! The spell of burning sands and flaming sunsets. The mystic lure of the unfathomable East providing a background for the intense drama of a struggle w T ith his soul. Then finally a new spiritual peace that two people find in two different ways after a blinding sandstorm had passed. Such is the story of “The Garden of Allah,” the romance of the transcendence of spiritual peace over the highest earthly love, which is now being i shown at the Grand Theatre.