LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 15

LYRIC

“ME, GANGSTER” With about the same frequency that leap year rolls around a picture eomes to the screen which flagrantly defies the conventions and still furnishes mighty good entertainment. Such a picture came to the Lyric Theatre yesterday for its initial show-

ing locally, and it more than satistied the appetites of the movie lovers. 3ft is a Pox Film, “Me, Gangster,’ a n adaptation of Charles Francis Coe’s widely-read story of the same title. Primarily “Me, Gangster,” is the story of just an average hoy who

lacks parental in■.'esn® or Pfccept and who has a lot ino,£ le c. timu 0,1 his hands, with the 2*?»We result. He sets into 'rouble tlu-oufjh his associations. aßd tP F S tlle . lH ' v by narrow margins. [ s,. n . ‘‘Hally is caught and becomes criHi * on vineed that you can’t be a criminal and win. lif» xac tly a new theme, taut it is H is logical. and that is the Vis 1C «, 1S told on the screen. r,>lA Terry, a new star, is line in the t^ie bo >. and June Collyer * Th^ s u wonderfully apppeal ins girl, arum • seoon, l picture on the proto me , is sheer fun from beginning lt un( f n !) This is "The Fortune aH ™ l '., starring tht inimitable comSyd Chaplin. ior several montlis Earle Foxe has DoUv ? ed in villainy, but it was Ohio'if thu " After graduating from University, Foxe went on brpai?- * or several years before hat „ n{ * f nto tlie movies as a highVan o^ edian While he was playing tor iilbb ‘: r ' John Ford, a Fox diroch-' cast him in a. heavy part, and he s *en at it ever since. The cruel in T’our Sons." and dastardly th« J Darl - V in -Hangman’s I louse/' and l';irJa yater * OUß stranger in "The News S'- are clever portrayals in his - c *nt gallery.