GRAND AND LYRIC
“NOT QUITE DECENT” At both the Grand and Lyric Theatres this evening the chief picture will be “Not Quite Decent.” In this production, Marne Jarrow, as played by Louise Dresser, is a former vaudeville headliner, a singer of blues songs, who has lost out in the race with age and has come to the end of her trail as a half owner and chief entertainer in an underground speakeasy. In this environment she meets her daughter, played by June Collyer, whom she has not seen since infancy. She recognises her, but the girl believes her mother has been dead for years.
The girl, Linda, just breaking into the show business as a chorus girl, gets in the toils of a philandering man-about-town and is on the brink of ruin when the mother decides to do a little mothering. Cruelly compromising herself, publicly, she saves the girl and the latter goes back to her childhood home and boy sweetheart without knowing it was her own mother who saved her.
At the Grand Theatre the second feature is “A South Sea Bubble,” a charming comedy-drama of buried treasure, starring Ivor Novello. At the Lyric Theatre the second feature is “Very Confidential,” starring Madge Bellamy in an amusing comedydrama of modern youth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 16
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212GRAND AND LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 16
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