EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 17

EVERYBODY’S

“VANITY” TO-MORROW “Jazz Mad,” the fine dramatic story of an old German composer, starring ] Jean Hersholt, will be shown at the Everybody’s Theatre for the last time this evening. To-morrow Everybody’s will present the swift-moving society drama, “Vanity,” starring two well-known screen players in Leatrice Joy and Charles Ray. The story deals with a young society woman who is wed to a rich young man. She accidentally meets a sailor whom she had encountered in France during the war. and on the night before her wedding he contrives to entice her aboard the vessel of which he is the skipper. When it is too late she realises that she has been trapped, and the subsequent scenes are said to bo intensely dramatic. The skipper is killed by a vicious ship’s cook. Charles Ray, playing opposite her as her fiance, h as a part totally at variance with those he has previously essayed. He shows ease and sophistication as the scion of a proud New York family. “Adventure Mad” is the title of the second picture on to-morrow’s programme. Lillian Hall Bavis and Nils Asther, both well known on tfce English screen, star in this production.