EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 15

EMPIRE

“RASH PRIVATES” “Irish Hearts,” starring May McAvoy, will be shown at the Empire Theatre this evening. May McAvoy is a beautiful actress, who has played many fine roles in her long screen career. But as Patsy Shannon, the colleen who leaves Ireland to find her lover Emmett in America, and instead finds hard work, sorrow, struggle, and to counteract all the bad luck (which came about by loss of a shamrock brooch), Timmie O'Shay, she is irresistible. Patsy Shannon frees the Irish that is in May McAvoy. All the fun and the Are and the tenderness are in her own heart. Jason Eobards gives a fine performance as the roughneck Tim, and Warner Richmond is Emmett, the false lover. “Rash Privates,” a rollicking comedy of the American Army of Occupation, is also being shown, starring Lya de Putti and Malcolm McGregor. Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara, who scored such a success in “Th« Gay Retreat,” are again to be seen in "Why Sailors Go Wrong,” a comedy romance with Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps in the leading roles. What happens to a couple of city bred boys, a taxi chauffeur and an Irish cabdriver, when they are cast on a cannibal island, where the hungry inhabitants give them the chance of losing ! their heads or taking a couple of canI nibal maids as wives, is told in this I merry photoplay soon to be ’released..