STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 16

STRAND

“COQUETTE” ON FRIDAY “The Black Watch," .which shortly close its long and successfl; season at the Strand Theatre, is based on Talbot Mundy’s widely-read nov« “King of tho Khyber Rifles.” Victor McLaglen is starred in the role of “Captain Donald Gordon King of the “Black Watch,” the nicknameV the 42nd Highlanders. Myrna Loy, in her most exotic role to date and her most important one. > the feminine lead, and the supporting cast includes David Rollins. Lumsden Hare, Roy D’Arcy. Mitchell LewiCyril Chadwick and Walter Long. The entertaining programme of shor: talkies will also bo screened only ur.i.: Thursday. The new Mary Bickford will make her debut in the film version of th* successful Broadway play, “Coquette at the Strand on Friday.

“The World’s Sweetheart” has gone forever. Little Mary Bickford of the screen lias crossed the bridge leading from childhood to womanhood. Poised, cultured, intelligent and charming, thMary of private life has long represented th© essens© of gracious womanhood. Only on the screen did she rever. to childhood. She has been in pictures almost 19 years and has been one o the great stars of the screen for tha; entire period. !>7o other star in pictures has such a record, and it is of even more interest now’, after havinp been shorn of her golden curls, tha: she has produced a picture that has created for her a new public and madher as popular as ever. For her first picture she has selected “Coquette,” the story of a little Southern girl who found a tragic womanhood in overwhelming love and traged:. As Norma Besant, the daughter of an old-fa.shioned father, she laughs her w ay in and out of countless love affairs. Then came the day when she met a care-free, hot-headed youth, who refused to become another victim of her wiles. From that moment the life cf the little Southern girl was beset with heartache. The little “Coquette” will live in the memory of all who see her, as a gallant little figure fighting bravo’: for her love against overwhelming odds. The gay little care-free Coquet:? | had at last bruised her shining wing>. and she herself suffered as she ha: caused innumerable others. The story is set in the Southern States of America, and to keep the story within its frame of the South Miss Bickford and her compair adopted a Southern accent —a pecuiia' characteristic of the Southern peop:-