LYRIC AND EMBASSY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 458, 13 September 1928, Page 15

LYRIC AND EMBASSY

TWO FINE PICTURES The life of a shop girl, craving thte luxuries of the women whom she serves in her place of emplojnnent, is vividly pictured in Fox Films “The Play Girl,” a comedy romance featuring Madge Bellamy, to be shown this evening at the Lyric and Embassy Theatres. Miss Bellamy plays in the role of a salesgirl in a fashionable florist shop, a postion that gives her wide opportunity to study gay life, which intrigues her to the extent that she craves clothes, jewels and other things that her meagre salary cannot buy. The second attraction this evening, entitled, “Blighty,” will be unique in many respects, not the least important of which wHI be the fact that it is a war • picture without a battle—a story of war and its effect on an ordinary English family; a story more than anything of war on the home front. As a screen achievement it will be notable in that it brings back to British direction Adrian Brunei, and. that it brings to the screen for the first time one of the greatest and best-loved English personaliies of the spoken drama, Miss Ellaline Terriss, who fills the allimportant mother-role, and brings to the screen a new type of mother, more human, more beautiful and more real. An excellent supporting programme will be presented at both theatres.