EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 15

EVERYBODY’S

“THE ROMANTIC AGE” “The Romantic Age,” the jazz drama with a novel love angle, that has been receiving favourable comment at the Everybody’s Theatre, ends its run on Wednesday evening. Credit is due the director, Robert Florey, for his sympathetic interpretation of the reaction of modern romantic youth—and the resultant pleasing film farce. There are abundant thrills provided in a night club raid, runaway and burning factory scenes, and there is humour as well. The featured players, Eugene O'Brien and Alberta Vaughn, make a charming screen lover pair who are convincingly realistic in their respective roles of serious bachelor and gay young flapper. “The Foreign Legion,” which is also being shown, is a powerful drama starring Lewis Stone, Norman Kerry, June Marlowe and Mary Nolan.

“Fazil,” a Fox picture featuring Charles Farrell and Greta Nissen, will shortly be screened in Auckland. The picture is described as a romance of Araby and the Paris boulevards, based on the Continental stage success, “L’lnsoumise/’ by Pierre Frondale. In his role of Arabian prince, the story takes Farrell through Parisian night clubs, Venetian canals and Oriental harems. Greta Nissen portrays a Paris society girl. The principal theme is the conflict of Oriental and Occidental standards of domestic morality, ______