BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 15

BRITANNIA

•ADAM AND EVIL" In “Adam and Evil/’ now being ' shown at the Britannia Theatre, with J Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle in the , starring roles, the opening scene re- j veals a young couple reading the morning paper, and paying no attention whatsoever to each other until they discover the news is broken over into i a section in the possession of the other. The story is a roaring farcecomedy, in which has been woven a great deal more truth than fiction in the lives of bored Lew Cody husbands and wives. The second feature on the pro- , gramme is “Stark Love,” a pioneering ■ picture. His girl the newly-wed wife of his father! That is one of the dramatic situations found in “Stark Love,” which is a thrilling tale of life in the Great Smoky Mountains. hundreds of miles from what we call civilisation, when one woman die*', another is immediately needed to step 1 into her place. The work of the farm, and raising of children, cannot stop, and no man will stoop to do such menial labour. Man is master, and woman the slave. Rowland V. Lee has been signed a further contract to direct for Para- j mount. His first picture under the j new agreement will be a story of cir- i cus life, featuring the new Paramount j romance team, Gary Cooper and Fay Wrav