LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

BIG COMEDY BILL May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel are the stars in “Slightly Used,” which is now being shown at the Lyric Theatre. As an elder sister, who hits upon the idea of a fictitious marriage to enable her younger sisters to marry, Miss McAvoy starts a most amusing series of situations. Daddy swallows the tackle, sinker and all, when Cynthia shows him the ring, and announces that her hubby, a Major Smith, has just sailed for Nicaragua to join his regiment. Then a nice young man comes along and Cynthia wishes she hadn’t married. Making herself a widow, by death notices in the papers, seemed the easiest way out, but this caused a MajorSmith, who happened to be in a Nicaragua hospital, to investigate. Claiming to be a Major Adams, bosom friend of the deceased, he called upon the merry widow. To make matters worse, daddy like him and decided to keep him around a while. Meanwhile, “Major Adams” sought Cynthia’s company assiduously, as she avoided his. He could speak, so it seemed, of nothing but the Major and the sad manner of his death. The New Zealand made film. “Hamilton Husbands,” will also be shown. “Hamilton Husbands” stars • Mr. Tony Firth, of Remuera, and is a merry story of three husbands, three wives, three sheiks and three flappers. Pictures of the Kingsford Smith flight will also be shown .