TWO COMEDIES AT EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 15

TWO COMEDIES AT EMPIRE

IsTewlvweds are given their innings in hilarious comedy form in If I Were Single,” which is now at the Empire 1 McAvoy and Connad Nagel are rn-stars in this breezy comedy hit. The Sars are seen as May and Ted Howard, bride and groom of a year. frV a stage where ••billing and coofnsT have loft a bit of their attraction Hence, when Myrna Hoy in the role of flio thrill-seeking Joan happens on the scene the somewhat jaded Ted starts a flirtation that soon brings about a critical condition in the Howard household To reciprocate for imagined and real wrongs, May flirts with her piano ln "A U Gir? in Every Port,” being the humorous adventures of Victor MeBaglen as an amorous sailor, is also being shown. On New Years Hay the Empire Theatre will screen "The Gipsy Princess ’ a beautiful romance of the Black Forest; also "Riding for Fame,” a breezy Hoot Gibson Western story.

By shipping one of its ace cameramen Robert Hartmann, aboard the Graf Zeppelin when it commenced its epochal Trans-Atlantic flight from Germany to U.S.A., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer World News secured exclusive pictures of one of the most amazing aerial adventures in history. Hartmann was on the job all the time and his camera record of an event that was a. "front page” story for many days is a truly remarkable # pne.