EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 22

EVERYBODY’S

‘‘GETTING GERTIE’S GARTER” Getting a lady’s garter sounds rather risque, but it isn’t always that, at least not in “Getting Gerrie’s Garter,” with Marie Prevost in the stellar role which is now showing at the Everybody’s Theatre. For laughs—frank, honest laughter—it would bo hard to find a more effective medium than this rattling farcecomedy of woman’s wiles and man’s guile. It starts with a giggle and ends with a guf-faw, and mischievous Marie and her mischief-making garter run rampant throughout the picture. It is all about a young chap, Charles Ray, who buys what he believes to be a bracelet for his financee, Marie Prevost but which proves to be a garter. On the dainty piece of milady’s accoutrement is a photograph of the young man, and also a photograph of his intended. Then comes the break between the engaged couple, and the bracelet that turned out to be a garter is metamorphosed into a Nemesis. For the girl becomes engaged to another man, who is extremely jealous, and her ex-fiance also becomes affianced to a girl of an inquiring disposition. “Finders Keepers,’’ a delightful Laura La Plante picture, is the second attraction. Miss La Plante finds herself in some amusing situations in this picture in which she plays the role of a daughter of a colonel in charge of a military training camp.