KING’S THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12559, 23 September 1926, Page 9

KING’S THEATRE

“MY OWN PAL.” Crooks outwitted, hearts made glad, a great police department vindicated —- this is the swift summary of “My Own Pal,” Fox Films' version of Gerald Beaumont’s thrilling story, “The Gallant Guardsman.,” starring Tom Mix, which closes to-night at the King’s Theatre. Humour and pathos are interspersed with dramatic sequences and Tony has ample opportunity to prove his super intelligence. Jack Blystone directed the production from a scenario by Lillie Hayward. There are Mix thrills galore and the story moves swiftly to a stirring climax. Olive Borden is the leading lady, and she is supported by a first-rate cast. The programme includes a gazette, a comedy, and a scenic. A first-class programme of music is provided -by the orchestra, under Mr A. H. Jerome. TO-MORROW’S xATTR ACTION A SPECTACULAR AND BREATHTAKING THRILLER 1 A startling exposure of - the tricks resorted to by many fake spiritualists and mediums who play upon the credulity of humanity by pretending _to establish communication with the spirit world is to be shown at the King’s Theatre to-morrow in “The Mystic.” a Tod Browning production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor'. The picture is a tense, gripping

melodrama of underworld life, based upon the deception and fraud of a false medium whose supposed ■ supernatural powers are explained for his own ends by a brilliant international confidence man. It opens in remote Hungary, where the faker discovers a gipsy mystic, and brings her to America where he uses her to fleece gullible wealthy patrons who wish to commdmcate with the departed. Under the talented direction of Tod Browning, himself an authority upon physic phenomena, and recognised as the greatest producer of_ underworld dramas, this picture is a piece of remarkably forceful entertainment. In the leading roles are Aileen Pringle, an intriguing actress whose dark, slender beauty makes her particularly impressive in exotic, seductive roles, such as she portrays in “The Mystic,” gives an. excellent portrayal as the gipsy, and Conway Tearle has never played more convincingly than here as the brilliant trickster. Others in the cast are Mitchell Lewis, Robert Ober. David Torrence, Gladys Hulette, and Stanton Heck.