HIPPODROME

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 464, 20 September 1928, Page 17

HIPPODROME

AN IRISH COLLEEN ' "Irish Hearts.” the delightful Irish story with May McAvoy in the leading role, was thoroughly enjoyed brail who saw it at the Hippodrome Theatre last evening. Here at last is a comedy which does not caricature, but characterises. Here are the Irish as they are. May McAvoy has never appeared so altogether adorable, and that is saying a great deal. Patsy Shannon, the colleen who leaves Ireland to find her lover Emmett, in America, and instead find hard work, sorrow, struggle, and to counteract all the bad luck (which came about by loss of a shamrock brooch)—Timmie O’Shay—ls irresistible. Patsy Shannon frees the Irish that is May McAvoy. All the fun and the fire and the tenderness are in her own heart. Jason Robards gives a fineperformance as the rough-neck Tim. and Warner Richmond is Emmett, the false lover. Kathleen Key, as the up-to-date girl, who wins Emmett away from Patsy, is well cast. Xo review of “Irish Hearts’* would be complete without mention of , that old trouper. Walter Perry, who plays the tippling, tantalising braggart dad to Patsy. His performance is as nearly perfect as any can be. Equally enjoyable, also, was the second picture, “30,000 Hollars Reward.” Although an entirely differ* i ent style of picture, it Was marked by the same high standard of entertainment. Well known stars head the cast in Esther Ralston and Ken Maynard. mounted on his horse. Tartan. An authentic film showing many of the most important scenes, at the recent Eucharistic Congress at Sydney headed the supporting programme.

ADELPHI, GREY LYNN

“BRINGING UP FATHER” “Bringing Up Father,’’ a comedy based on the well-known newspaper cartoons, will be shown this evening at the Adelphi Theatre, Grey Lynn. It is straight comedy, laugh piled on laugh, but, by a deft handling of plot and action, there are delicate little touches of heart interest, too. such ns the love of a father for his child and the romance of two young people. Incidentally it Is a little lesson the great opportunity America holds for workers, although it was not intended at all to point to any moral in the story. “Brass Knuckles,” starring Monte Blue and Betty Bronson, is the second feature,