EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 453, 7 September 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER A house of mystery, a house of thrills; and a house of laughs—that’s “13 Washington Square,” the spooky, eerie film starring Jean Hersholt and Alice Joyce, which opened yesterday at the Everybody’s Theatre. When you’re not screaming, you’re laughing, and when others scream you laugh—both with them and at them. Taken all in all, “13 Washington Square” is as thoroughly entertaining as any picture which has been screened here for monthts. It has its serious moments, of course, and Jean Hersholt and Alice Joyce give two fine performances full of human touches. Hersholt enacts the role of a kindly picture thief who tries to rob the house owned by Miss Joyce, who believes he is after her jewels.

There’s a young couple in love, very capably and" sympathetically portrayed by George Lewis and Helen Foster. Lewis needs no introduction following his excellent work in “The Collegians.” Miss Foster , is a newcomer, pretty, petite and clever. A great many of the laughs are the result of Zasu Pitts’s adept pantomime. She is outstanding in every picture in which she appears. The entire supporting cast is excellent. The photography is clever and the picture as a whole will delight young and old.' If the audience last evening had any more breath to laugh, they expended it on the second picture, “The Poor Nut.”

The leading player in this film is Jack Mulhall, who is seen as a simple country lad at a great college, simply burning to make a name for himself, but kept back by shyness.