HER FIRST FARCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 15 (Supplement)

HER FIRST FARCE

POLA NEGRI AT OPERA HOUSE. “GOOD AND NAUGHTY" TO-NIGHT If you are a “Cinderella Girl” you will want to sec “Good and Naughty.” starring Pola Negri, which comes to the Opera House to-night. A “Cinderella Girl” is one who docs not realise her natural charm and beauty or for some reason has never taken advantage of them. Every girl, as this picture shows, has a great deal of unrevealed attractiveness. She can bring out her charm to advantage if she will only take the trouble to do so. The story of “Good and Naughty” is from the Avery Hopwood stage farce “Naughty Cinderella.” It is the tale of a girl who is intensely wrapped up in her work as the assistant to a designer of homes and interiors for the smart set of New York. She is secretly in love with her employer, but he pays scant attention to her, focusing his attentions on the wife of a million aire patron.

But as generally happens in such situations, he finds himself embroiled ia a tangle that bids fair to cause much

unpleasantness. And Pola Negri, as the girl, makes a valiant effort to save him. In order to accomplish her mission she dresses in a manner that becomes her and expertly brings out the true loveliness of which she is possessed. It is not giving away too much of the picture’s secret to state that sh? wins the love of her employer, portray ed by that inimitable actor. Tom Moore. Ford Sterling has a splendid comedy character. “Good and Naughty” was directed by that master of screen farce, Malcolm St. Clair. METRO MOVEMENTS NEW FEATURES COMING. ENGLISH NOVELIST’S CONTRACT., F. Hugh Herbert, the famous English novelist, and author of many film successes, has signed a new contract to write exclusively for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Two of his stories “The Waning Sex,” starring Norma Shearer, and “There You Are,” have been produced with marked success. • * • ♦ Rex Ingram, master director of “The Four Horsemen,” “Mare Nostrum,” “ Scaramouche, ” “The Prisoner of Zenda” and many other remarkable pictures, has again gone’ abroad for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer a film version of Robert Hichen "s novel “The Garden of Allah.” • • • • What is anticipated to bo the most amazing of Lon Chancy’s great career will be his principal part in the forth coining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production “Alonzo the Armless.” He will play the part of an armless wonder who dominates the underworld of a European city. Chaney has already commenced an intensive course in the manipulation of pencils, knives, forks and revolvers with his feet. • • • • Twenty-one girls were tested for the leading role in Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer’s new picture “The Taxi Dancer” before it was finally allotted to Joan Crawford, the beautiful new player of “Old Clothes” and “Sally, Irene and Mary.’* •'• • • Extensive preparations are being made for the production of “ ’Frisco Sal,” a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture with Owen Moore and Pauline Starke. It was written by Tod Browning, the famous director.