LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 15

LYRIC

“ME, GANGSTER” TO-MORROW The delightful comedy, “The Farmers’ Daughter,” starring Marjorie Beebe, together with the fine picture, “Lover’s Island,” will be screened at the Lyric Theatre for the last time this evening. The Fox Film “Me, Gangster,” based on the Charles Fi'ancis Coe serial in the Saturday Evening Post, will open at the Lyric Theatre this evening. “Me, Gangster,” essentially, is the oft-told story of the boy who lacked parental influence, who was allowed to run wild in his boyhood days and who, naturally, travelled the wrong road in his adolescence and young manhood. More th%n all else, “Me, Gangster” is a warning to parents as to the training of their offspring. It was directed by Raoul Walsh. Don Terry, playing a lead in his first motion picture, is said to be a revelation. June Coliyer gives a truly inspired portrayal, while the su porting cast is the finest ever assembled for one picture. The uproarious Syd Chaplin comedy, “The Fortune Hunter,” will also be shown this evening.

BILLIE DOVE’S NEW ROLE In Billie Dove. First National possesses one of the most beautiful stars upon the screen to-day. Of a very

distinctive type, neither flapper nor haughty “g r a n d e dame,” Miss Dove is the epitome of sweet womanhood. In “The Night Watch” she proves that she can act as well as look beautiful. rising to the heights of drama and emotional action which is demanded of her. Set in a novel locale. the story is absorbing and dra-

matic, carrying the interest well on to the final climax. Miss Dove, beautifully gowned as usual, is ideally suited ; to the role of misunderstood wife. Adolphe Menjou plays the part of a ■ bankrupt nobleman in his latest Paramount production, “Marquis Preferred.” It is one of the type of roles that have | made him famous. Frank Tuttle is | directing. ’ j