LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 585, 11 February 1929, Page 15

LYRIC

“SAILOR IZZY MURPHY” An amusing story of high jinks on the high seas is "Sailor Izzy Murphy, now being shown at the Lyric Theatre, starring George Jessel. The faree is the most uproariously funny film of the year. It recounts the adventures of a passionate perfumery salesman who decorates the bottles of his especial brand with the face of a fair maiden, to whose father the youngster tries to sell his famous recipe. Kicked out from under the parental roof of the lady. Izzy. on damages bent, pursues the two aboard their yacht, which, to their horror, they find manned by a crew of merry madmen. What follows is a riot of side-splitting fun. Ono of the most brilliant Oriental pictures ever filmed is ' The crimson City" with Myrna Lov, the second feature. Miss Loy, always enchanting in parts of this character, is cast as \ an Tov slave in the "House of a Thousand naggers.” There she falls in love with an outcast white man, hides him. nurses him to health only to have him taken from her by his former white sweetheart. This is but a small part of the action which makes the play so haunting.

Carol Lombard, a blonde graduate of Mack Sennett comedies, is the second player to be selected for the cast of Cecil B. De Milie’s "Dynamite,” now in production at the MetroGold'wy n-Mayer studios. Conrad Nagel is the only other member of the cast so far chosen. "Dynamite" will be De Millc's first talking picture.