“THE POOR NUT” AT EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 474, 2 October 1928, Page 15

“THE POOR NUT” AT EMPIRE

Two such well-known comedy players as Jack Mulhall and. Charlie Murray head the cast of ‘ The Poor Nut,” to be shown'this evening at the Empire Theatre. Jack takes the part of a college student in a small-town college, where because of his “inferiority complex” and peculiar shyness, he is known to the other students as the “poor nut.*’ Life for Jack is not so good. In hiheart he wishes to be a college hero. In fact he goes so far as to write a young lady in anther college that he is a track star and hero and all that. It is what he wants to be, but his complex stops him. There is a pretty girl who takes an interest in Jack.- He takes an in- ; terest in her, too, with the result that in the end Jack comes out of his com- ! plex, becomes the track star he wants to be, wins the ihost important track meet for his college, become a college hero, and wins the heart of the girl. ‘Man, Woman and Son,” starring John Gilbert, will also be shown. ENGLISH ACTOR IN “THE SWAMP” Gloria Swanson has selected Walter Byron to be her leading man in “The Swamp,” the film with which she will follow “Sadie Thompson.” Byron is the young English actor imported by Samuel Goldwyn to Hollywood last April, and cast by him in the leading male role of Vilma Hanky’s j “The Awakening.” Goldwy n has loaned ■ Byron to Miss Swanson. In his second American film appear- ! ance, Byron will come under the direc- | torial hand of Eric Von Stroheim, and ; the Englishman will enact the role of a German prince. In “The Swamp” Gloria Swanson succeeds Sadie Thompson with a characterisation of Queen Kelly, Irish lass. The locale is German East Africa- Von Stroheim wrote the original story’ of the picture, which he has now begun to direct. | The Euglish actor had considerable J stage experience prior to his departure for Hollywood. That fact is of some ; importance, because ’ The Swamp i will have dialogue sound sequences in which the voices of Miss Swanson and i other players will be heard.