EVERYBODY’S AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S AND TIVOLI

“LADY BE GOOD” People often wonder what is going on in th© wings and back stage when they attend a legitimate theatre. They find out, at least to a certain extent, in “Lady Be Good,” First National’s farce comedy featuring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, which opens its local engagement a£ Everybody’s and Tivoli Theatres tomorrow.

“Lady Be Good” is a story of vaudeville performers, with most of it occurring in th© dressing-rooms and back-stage. Arguments, quarrels, disagreements, all sorts of things, may be happening, just a few feet from the stage. But when the entrance call comes, sentences are halted verbless, arguments are temporarily abandoned, fixed smiles appear like magic, and the battlers go capering out to do their turn. “Lady Be Good,” as a musical comedy, had a long run in virtually every large city in the world, and its success promises to be duplicated on the screen.

In this picture Jack Mulhall plays the part of a vaudeville magician and card expert. Dorothy Mackaill as his winsome assistant, who helps him befuddle the audience with his feats of magic, is featured in the feminine lead, and a large cast of well-known players is in support. “The Chinese Parrot,” filmed under the direction of Paul Leni, from the scenarisation of Earl Derr Biggers’s serial novel of the same name, will be the second attraction at both theatres. It is a Universal-Jewel production, replete with thrills, adventure, gripping suspense and a love theme that is intensely appealing to its human interest. It takes one from the depths of the sea to the deadly silence of the desert and holds on© fast in the grip of stark drama. The cast is all-star, embracing such noted screen favourites as Marian Nixon, Edmund Burns, Hobart Bosworth, Sojin, Captain Albert Conti, Florence Turner, Fred Esmelton, Edgar Kennedy, Slim Summerville, Dan Mason, Anna May Wong, George Kuwa and Etta Lee.