Release Features Ten Well-Known Song Hits

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 248, 24 October 1934, Page 5

Release Features Ten Well-Known Song Hits

'•LILY OF KILLARNEY” PUTS REAL IRELAND ON SCREEN. (Palace, Screening Saturday.) Beautiful Irish settings are a notable feature of “Lily of Killarney,” the Twickenham romance of the Emerald Isle, which will ho distributed throughout Australasia by British Dominions Films Ltd. H. Fowler Mear wrote the story of this musical romance, in which have been interpolated some of the best tunes from Sir Julius Benedict's Opera, in addition to many of Moore’s Irish Melodies. The popular ballad, “Father O’Flynn,” and several original melodies* by W. L. Trytel, composer and musical arranger to the Twickenham Studios, arc also effectively introduced into “Lily of Killarney,” and the production was directed by Maurice Elvcy. “Lily of Killarney,” which puts real Ireland on the screen, contains many elaborate scenes, one of which depicts a most realistic replica of a lake-sido cavern.

The title role is played by pretty Gina Malo, who i s of Irish nationality, and therefore ideally suited to tlio part of the pretty but irresponsible heroine. John Garrick, who is the possessor of a very fine baritone voice, is seen opposite Gina Malo, and Stanley Holloway, the former Co-optimist comedian, who provides some delightful comedy in the part of Father O’Flynn, most famous of Irish preachers. Other parts are played by Leslie Perrins, Dennis Ilocy, A. Bromley Davenport, Sarah Allgood, and Dorothy Boyd. Lovers of English countryside will be delighted to see several hunting scenes in this fine musical romance. For one

of these scenes, representing the meet of a hunt jin an Irish village, the Pinner Draghounds wore asked to lend their services, and they had the unusual experience of appearing in the market place of a village built in the grounds of the Twickenham Studios, where the film was made. By having real huntsmen and trained hounds, an authentic atmosphere was guaranteed.