EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 494, 25 October 1928, Page 17

EDENDALE

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES “The World’s Entertainers,” a fine vaudeville combination from J. C. Williamson’s Theatres, will be presented at the EcLendale Theatre this evening. Tho programme includes Harmston’s Comedy Cockatoos, Jean McDonald and her Mystifying Living Marionettes, Manelli and Mack supreme comedy jugglers, and the talented dancer, Evelyn May. The main pictorial attraction is the mystery drama, “A Thief in the Dark.” The picture deals with a gang of circus sideshow crooks who “raise” the spirits of the departed and reap a harvest from their credulous victims. It is something new in this type of picture, with many unusual angles, and all the tricks of mediums and how they arrange their seances are exposed. Miss Beebe furnishes most of the laughs in this production in her encounter with the “ghosts” of an old mansion.

TALENTED ENGLISH COMEDIENNE

The latest queen of comediennes, Lillian Harvey, the vivacious little English star, will soon make her debut to New Zealand picture audiences in her first screen vehicle “Crazy Maizie.” Miss Harvey is one of the greatest screen comediennes the film world has known. She has already created a furore both in England and the Continent with her wonderful acting in the Maizie series, of which “Crazy Maizie” happens to be the first. Spontaneous humour is the keynote of her first picture and the spectator is kept in a continual state of amusement right throughout. “Crazy Maizie” will be released soon by Cinema Art Films.

A short time ago the Sydney branch of British Dominions Films held a screening of two forthcoming pictures, “The Physician” and “The Luck of the Navy.” There was a representative gathering of exhibitors and both pictures came in for praise, according to reports.