PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10711, 8 October 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

“WEST POINT” AND “HIS TIGEK LADY.” “West Point,” a college production, and “Hisi Tiger Lady,” will be finally screened at the Palace tonight. William Haines’ splendid physique, good, looks, buoyant personality, and, above all, his talent fbr romantic comedy, make him an ideal player. “West Pomt” has beeii specially written for him. A college romance, { enacted with the West Point. Academy as its actual background, it is the type' of modern sporting romance that audiences revel in. The. story throws into bold relief the incorrigible optimism and desire for .life of the. average youth ivho enters college. Thus -Haines, as' “Brice Wayne,” makes friends and enemies—friends who flatter him,, and, consequently; enemies he unconsciously add's; to. He becomes too ‘.‘fresh.” ■ Even:..the girl he'meats resents' his bravado, and .the course of their first love ceases' To . run smoothly and real drama’, enters their lives; Forced to enter the den of a ferocious tiger' to return a lady’s glove, in; order to prove his love for the woman,: Adolphe Men]qu becomes ;en|Wngled; in a Series-. of tbrilling "'situations ‘in his latest Paramount', starring production, ‘,‘His Tiger Lady.”- Menjou has been given a decidedly idilfereriF role -.«» this pictured’ The star isi cast, as a mere extra' man 'of the Folies Bergere, Paris, and' falls{ {in -love' with a rich, lady an .wins her through an impersonation. In { the garb, bf a maharajah, he sets'out to have a grand time, resulting', in hisi afiair w : th the lady and lfer ultimatum that'.uiiloa s hq rescues her glove, from the tiger’s deb/ 'shbmdll never see him : again- ijjvelyn Brent has tu« role of the ’process'.' * ~