LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

“MAN, WOMAN AND SON” The popular actor, John Gilbert, will l»e seen in his latest picture, “Man, Woman and Son,” at the Lyric Theatre this evening. He plays the role of • t newspaper reporter. The audience is taken into a newspaper office and shown the whole business of publishing a paper, from gathering the news to printing it, in a series of scenes that are graphic and technically marvellous. A spectacular detail is a reproduction of the great Embassy Ball, largest social affair in America, staged on a gorgeous scale. Gilbert plays an American youth who by sheer work rises from poverty to the position of a newspaper reporter on a big daily—and his first love affair is with the pretty society editor, a role played by Jeanne Eagels, famous stage star of “Rain.” who makes her screen debut in the pic-

George O’Brien and Estelle Taylor ean also be seen on the programme in Honour Bound.” The story is about Ogletree, a young man who is sent to prison through the fear of his sweetheart (Estelle Taylor), that she will jeopardise her position. He goes Through years of hell and then is transferred to the coal-mines, where he finds he is to serve as the chauffeur of Mortimer, the coal baron. The climax comes when Ogletree wins his *md freedom through the help of his friend. Gid Ames, the love of Selma and the sacrifice of Evelyn, who finds that she now truly loves and has lost.