“THE IMPOSTER” AT EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 457, 12 September 1928, Page 14

“THE IMPOSTER” AT EMPIRE

The screen’s most celebrated stunt and trick flyer is the star of the feature at the Empire Theatre this evening. “The Phantom Flyer” is the title of this cloud thriller, which is said to be the most interesting and exciting film in which Al. Wilson has been featured. In the course of the gripping drama, which is full of love interest, he performs some .new and startling feats of daring, one of the most astonishing of these being bis leap from a speeding motor-car to a zooming airplane. The locale of “The Phantom Flyer'* is iut-'the south-west, and the story

deals with the adventures of the air hero in running to earth a group of schemers and marauders who are bent upon ruining a settler whose home they co^tet.

“The Impostor,” an exciting story, with Evelyn Brent in the leading role, is the second feature.

Douglas Fairbanks, Junr.. is cofeatured with Helene Chadwick in Columbia’s “Modern Mothers.” Young Fairbanks is ambitious to make a name for himself and has no intention d trading on his father’s name. Already he has achieved notable success as a feature player, and critics have noted ftis screen ability is improving with every production in wheih he if cast. Master Pictures will release “Modern Mothers.”