EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 17

EVERYBODY’S

TWO ENJOYABLE COMEDIES A pretty maid, a jealous fiance, a jewelled garter and a broken engagement. That’s the combination that makes “Getting Gertie’s Garter.” now showing at the Everybody’s Theatre, one of the most entertaining farcecomedies ever put on the screen. Added to these essential concomitants is the vivacious and sparkling personality of Marie Prevost, the star, and the result is a hurricane of laughs, chortles and chuckles. In the course of human events, when a girl loses her garter something exciting is bound to happen. When that garter displays the photograph of a former fiance, who is hot on the trail of the incriminating bauble, and her present fiance is possessed of a übiquitous eye and a jealous disposition, the pot of trouble is bound to boil and bubble —and so it does in “Getting Gertie’s Garter.” It boils up to a hectic heat, steaming up a merry melange of situations that would make a hypochondriac laugh. The second attraction on the programme is “Finders Keepers,” an enjoyable story in which Laura La Plante has the leading role. She is seen as the daughter of the colonel in .charge of a military camp. All the officers fall in love with Laura and ask her to accept their rings. She hasn’t the heart to refuse and takes them all. The trouble really commences, however, when she herself falls in love with a poor private. She even dons a khaki uniform to get past the sentry to be near him. “BOBBED HAIR” AT EDENDALE A tremendously moving and powerful love story set against the sordid background of the underworld is “Midnight Rose,” which is now at the Edendale Theatre, co-starring Lya De Putti and Kenneth Harlan. This picture will without a doubt establish Miss De Putti as one of the most emotional of screen stars. Her deft characterisation of the cabaret dancer will win for her many more supporters, and the depth of her portrayal will disturb the hearts of those who have never been subjected to the temptations of the glitter of the night life of a big city. Kenneth Harlan makes an amazingly fine young hero, a reformed gangster who begins to earn an honest living, while he attempts to convert his wife to a life of regeneration. “Bobbed Hair,” an uproarious comedy starring two comediennes in Marie Prevost and Louise Fazenda, will also be shown.

Production has started on George Bancroft’s new Paramount starring picture, “The Docks of New York.” under the direction of Josef von Sternberg. One of the latest additions to the cast is Gustave Von Sevffertitz, who will play the part of “Hymn-Book” Harry. Other members of the cast include Budd Fine, May Foster, Betty Compson and Baclanova.