BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 14

BRITANNIA

“WICKEDNESS PREFERRED” “Wickedness Preferred,” a. comedy drama starring Aileen Pringle and Lew Cody, is now at the Britannia Theatre. Lew is seen in the role of an author who writes romantic stories of island life —which he bolsters up with data from his encyclopaedia. Aileen Pringle plays the role of the wife who takes her husband's v dictation, looks up the encyclopaedia for Lew’s lies, and recognises in him a soul hungry for romance, but unable to live up to ' he reputation he has created. Nevertheless, Lew creates such a heart-pounding reaction to his caveman theories in Baby Burton, a flighty blonde staying with her prosaic husband at a summer resort hotel, that she proposes running away to a desert island with him. The Richard Barthelmess picture, “Out of the Ruins.” is also being shown. JAMESON THOMAS IN “TESHA” In reviewing British International Pictures’ production. “Tesha,” the dramatic critic of the “Sunday Despatch,” London, writes as follows: “In years to come we shall remernbe Jameson Thomas, the male star in ‘Tesha,’ just as we shall remember Emil Jannings in ‘The Last Command.” Clive Brook in .‘Forgotten Faces,’ and H. B. Warner as the ‘King of Kings.’ ‘Tesha’ was adapted from the novel by the Countess Barcvnska. Maria Corda, well-remembered for her wonderful work in ‘Private Life of Helen of Troy,’ plays the leading part in a powerful story of a beautiful danseuse and the eternal conflict—the passionate craving of motherhood and the irresistible call of her art.”