LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

“MAN, WOMAN AND SON” TO-NIGHT “Man, Woman and Son/' which will bo shown this evening at the Lyric Theatre, stars the popular actor John Gilbert. He’s a typical American youngster, who starts as a mailing room boy in a newspaper, becomes a reporter—and only loses his practical angle when he falls in love —which after all is the most practical thing about the role. One does just that thing—when one is young and the girl is pretty—and Jeanne Eagels, the leading lady, is all of that.

The new story is an ultra-modern romance laid in a newspaper office in a big Washington daily. The thrill of news gathering in the national capital is embellished with a startling plot and a remarkable romance, in which Gilbert plays a role that shows another side of his extraordinary versatility. Monta Bell, both author and director of the play, was himself once a newspaper man in Washington, hence his production has the echo of the man who knows his subject. The second attraction will be “Honour Bound,” a dramatic story of convicts in the coalmining districts, starring George O’Brien and Estelle Taylor.