“KNOCK-OUT REILLY”
COMING TO REGENT Osgood Perkins, last seen as the race track tout in Frank Tuttle’s Paramount picturisation of “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em,” and a featured player in the stage comedy. “Loose Ankles.” will be seen in another of his inimitable characterisations in Richard Dix’s latest starring vehicle. "Knockout Reilly,” coming on Friday to the New Regent Theatre. Perkins plays “Spider” Cross, manager of a prize fighter in the Malcolm St. Clair version of Albert Pay son Terhune’s story, “The Hunch,” which was adapted to the screen by Pierre Pollings and Kenneth Raisbeck. His Thespian experience has been variegated. As as undergraduate at Harvard, amateur theatricals engrossed him. Following the war. in which he played the role of an ambulance driver, he came quickly to the fore as a stage actor. His return to the studios was in Hebe Daniels’s "Wild, Wild Susan.” Since that time he has entertained much on both stage and screen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 15
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