PRAISE FOR "LUMMOX"

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 15

PRAISE FOR "LUMMOX"

This is what the editor of Mot. n Picture News” writes about the Herbert Brenon-Fannie Hurst dialogue picture, “Lummox.” “Ninety minutes of intelligent entertainment. Herbert Brenon, maker of good pictures, comes through with ‘Lummox’ and thereby adds another laurel wreath to his crown of success. Easily one of the high lights of this splendid attraction is the performance of Winifred Westover. It is some years since she has appeared in pictures. Her work was never marked by the distinctive, yet in ‘Lummox’ she enacts a role that ranks among the which sound pictures have thus fir given the public. Easily one of the all-talking pictures to date.”

Lew Ayres, a newcomer to th« screen who plays with Greta. Garbo in • The Kiss.” her new Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer picture, began life as Lewi* Ayers. "I changed it because no one could say it,” he explained, “without making it sound like loose air." Now ro ahead, try it yourself! Dixie Lee. blonde and dimmutiv*-. sang her way through “Fox Movietone l ollies of 1929.” Into a comedy nit in • Why Leave Home.” then into a featured role in ‘Harmony At Home,” “Let's Go Places.” “The Big Part* /*- i und Happy Days,” all 1930 release*.