LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 539, 17 December 1928, Page 15

LYRIC

“NONE BUT THE BRAVE” Teeming with beauty, laughter and thrills, the latest Fox Films production, “None But the Brave,” now being shown at the Lyric Theatre, is the story of the evolution of an egotistical college youth into a man of the world. Charles Morton has the leading male role with Sally Phipps playing opposite him. This picture introduces the first bathing beauty parade filmed in technicolour. The supporting cast is exceptionally good and includes Farrell Macdonald, Sharon Lynn, Billy Butts, Alice Adair and Tom Kennedy. Monte Banks, one of the cleverest comedians on the screen, is the star of “Keep Smiling,” which is also being shown. “RIDING FOR FAME” AT ROYAL A stirring Hoot Gibson Western story, “Riding For Fame,” will be shown at the Royal Theatre, Kingsland, this evening. It has as plot the theme of a cowboy whose vocation is travelling from ranch to ranch and breaking in horses. He meets a girl just returned from college, and they are attracted to one another. When the girl’s father is robbed and the cowboy is accused of the theft, he vindicates himself by capturing the real thief after a terrific fight, and returning the money. Much of the interest of the picture is lost in the % ire telling, but on the screen it holds the audience enthralled throughout. A dramatic Charlie Murray story, “The Head Man,” is the second attraction. Dolores del Rio, in an interview at Amsterdam, said her next picture would be a romance of a Dutch fisher girl. The picture is to be directed by Edwin Carewe, who has gathered much photographic material for background along the sea-coast of Holland.

Sally O’Neil, who will be remembered as the vivacious young Irish girl in recent pictures, appears in D. W. Griffith’s “The Battle of the Sexes” as a subdued young home girl. “Tire Battle of the Sexes” is an epic of average American home life, with Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver. Belle Bennett. Don Alvarado and Miss O’Neil in the featured cast.