THE “WRIGHT” IDEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 483, 12 October 1928, Page 15

THE “WRIGHT” IDEA

The sober routine of a business office is utilised surprisingly in Johnny Hines’s latest picture, “The Wriglit Idea,” and with hilarious effect, be it said. The story deals with the genial Johnny as an inventor of blotterless and luminous ink. who believes himself the owner of a palatial racing yacht. A romance, naturally, develops between Johnny and a pretty stenographer, played by Louise Lorraine, who also plays oposite the comedian in “Chinatown Charlie.” Hilarious situations are the result of the desperate efforts to penetrate into the inner sanctums of the “big bosses ' with his invention, while the scenes aboard the yacht also cause much merriment. Thrills are provided in plenty bv a daring midnight race, with all lights out and the captain and crew holding the passengers as prisoners. There is a very dramatic climax wherein the indomitable Johnny saves the situation.

Otto Brower, for several years an assistant director on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, has been promoted to full directorship and assigned to direct “The Avalanche,” Jack Holt’s next Zane Grey production.

Conrad Xagel and Myrna Loy art-co-stars in “The Girl P'rom Chicago,’ the great Warner Bros.’ melodrama. which is shortly to be released throughout New Zealand. The subject is the spectacular career of a Southern girl, who comes to the great city to free her brother from the cutch of an underworld gang, who have caused his sentence to death. Thrilling and absorbing, but with the admixture of humour and human kindness without which any play is untrue. “The Girl From Chicago,” is meeting with tremendous success. It is not a picture of evil for evil’s sake, but of love battling against the forces of evil, to win all that makes life worth while. The “Girl From Chicago” won not only her brother’s freedom, but the love of the man she believed to be a leader among the crooks.