PALACE THEATRE
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An unusually* fine picture, “The City,” the screen version o' Clyde Fitch’s great melodrama, opens at the Palace to-night. This is the story* of a small town family who move tp the city thinking to conquer it. And while fame and fortune come to the head of the family, dconge Land jnr., as ably portrayed by* Robert Fraser, the price exacted by the city is so devastating "that the cup of success becomes bitter will) regret. His mother. Lillian Eli licit, simple countrywoman, goes in for the latest extremes m clothes- * and facial lifts. .Mis sister .Cicely, succumbs to the litres of an unscrupulous ex-convict and fortune hunter, and is saved only hi.time from a file worse than death, while- Land himself faces ruin m the end. Walter MeGrtiil gives a splendid performance' as the menace, Jim .Hannock dope fiend and ex-convict, while May Allison interprets the character of a sophisticated, city girl with fine realism. Richard Willi ng, one of the youngest screen lovers is a fine type of American, who stays and achieves success in liis home town and at last wins back to love and safety,-Cicely.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10451, 5 December 1927, Page 6
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193PALACE THEATRE Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10451, 5 December 1927, Page 6
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