EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

“MIDNIGHT ROSE” “Midnight Rose,’* which was shown for the first time at Everybody’s Theatre last evening, is a picture combining in a remarkable way the romantic and the realistic. The baring of two hearts in the skilful way the director has accomplished it, is certainly a revelation. L#ya De Putti and Kenneth Harlan give, without a doubt, the most sincere and profound characterisations of their careers. Miss De Putti is a cabaret dancer in to whom the insidious poison of night life has been injected. Her fight against these impulses, in some intensely emotional scenes which brand her as one of the screen’s most talented actresses, are sui passe * by none. , . . , Harlan has a difficult role in which he acquits himself with great credit. It is that of a reformed gangster trying to lift the girl he loves from the underworld he has left. The love story is powerful and beautiful, set as it is against such a strongly contrasting background. Strange to say the second picture on the programme, “The Hawk s Nest, has a theme akin to the other. Both stories deal with the underworld of a big city, but the plots are entirely different. Milton Sills is the star of The Hawk’s Nest,’* and plays the role of a gang leader whose face is scarred by war wounds. The rejuvenation of his face and the uplifting of his moral conduct go hand in hand in a picture that can only be called first class entertainment.