THE LYCEUM

Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3480, 14 December 1926, Page 3

THE LYCEUM

“The Everlasting Whisper,” the screen adaptation of Jackson Gregory’s novel, in which Tom Mix is starred, and will be screened finally at the Lyceum to-night is one of the finest stories in which the noted William Fox western star ever appeared. Gregory’s story takes its name from the “everlasting whisper” of the breeze through the pine trees of the North-west, and it is the lure of this incessant whispering that brings Mark King- to this rugged land. Ho encounters Gloria Gaynor, a society girl, played by Alice Calhoun. The girl, tired of city sham, seeks content-, mont in the open, and Mark King fits in with her mood. Circumstances throw them together and she marries him to avoid marrying Gratton, played by Robert Cain, who tricked her into an elopement. But, with marriage, comes a realisation that they are of different worlds. His modes of Uf6 and his manners are repulsive to her. However, since she has made her bargain, and, since he loves her with the virile love of a man of the outdoors, King makes her live up to it. The manner in which King tames this tigress of society and wins her heart provides plenty of opportunity for action of the Tom Mix sort. Coming To-morrow —A Great Comedy Reckless Romance.” If you’re sensitive about laughing out loud at a movie, don’t go to sec "Reckless Romance,” at the Lyceum Theatre, commencing to-morrow. Because you’ll have to laugh loudly and often. On second thought, wo advise you to sec it anyway, because you’ll be so interested that you won’t know whether you gave a loud guffaw- or a melodious ripple. This A 1 Christie feature is one of the best farces that the screen has ever had. It is adapted from the Broadw-ay laughing hit. “What’s Tour Wife Doing ?” and is teeming with funny situations. Joseph Farnham’s titles are positively brilliant and a source of laughs on their own account. Briefly the story is about a pair of newlyw-cds, still in the numb stages of love, who are forced to got a divorce if they are to inherit Grandpa’s millions. They elect hubby’s friend, who has a. girl of his own, to be co-respondent. They try various ways of being caught in a compromising situation with the result that they, succeed in getting everybody in wrong hut, they never succeed in getting “compromised.” One of the most brilliant casts over assembled interprets this hilarious talc. It includes T. Roy Barnes, Harry Myers, Wanda Hawley, Sylvia Broamcr, Tully Marshall, Jack Duffy, Lincoln Plumcr, Morgan Wallace and George French.