“THE AMERICAN BEAUTY"

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 14

“THE AMERICAN BEAUTY"

COMING TO EVERYBODY A decidedly human story, presenting > real insight into the life of a w average circumstances, is promised ir “American Beauty,” Billie Cove’s fet*' starring production which will be sheer at Everybody’s in addition to “The &• and the Canary” on Thursday. As a typical girl, with the not usual ambition to marry a millionaire, but at the same time with a trouhiw affection for a youth in her own*, cumstances, the character played by Miss Dove is a very real one and here what is possibly her best opportunity for an outstanding screen jx*. trayaL Lloyd Hughes plays the leading masculine role opposite Miss Dove, with Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston Lucien Prival, A 1 St. John, Edyth* Chapman, Alice White, Tola d'Avrii. Loretta Young and others in prominent supporting parts. This is a Richard Wallace production. Mary Pickford’s latest production. “My Best Girl,” is a picture that it well up to the thoroughly d&ghtfu: standard which this star always seta Although she is again seen in her famous. role of the wistful youm thing, she is not, in “My Best Girl,' the rather callow juvenile of old. The story is romantic, and “My Best 'Jirl." with its exquisite mixture of drama, pathos and lilting comedy, provide* a typical picture for Miss Pickfcrd, wh* has never been seen to greater advantage than in her latest production.