EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 14

EDENDALE

PROFESSOR D’ALMAINE

Professor T)'Alma in o, the eminent hypnotist, will present his remarkable performance at the Edendale Theatre this evening. He will demonstrate catalepsy and bloodless surgery, and place a subject In a 24-hour sleep. In addition, his entertainment abounds in humour and keeps the audience in a constant state of laughter with the antics of the hypnotised subjects. The pictorial side of the programme consists of the picture, “Footloose Widows,’* a romantic comedy starring Lcmise Fazenda. It is a story of two girls who get a supply of lovely gowns from the New York shop in which they work and who go to a big hotel in Florida with extravagant dreams of landing a millionaire to supply them all of their lives with yachts and pearls and motor-cars and all the other things their little hearts desire.

“MY BEST GIRL” AT GRAND

“Across to Singapore,” is but one of the attractions on the new programme now being shown at the Grand Theatre. Ramon Novarro, star of “Ben-Hur,” is seen in this picture, a dramatic romance of the high seas, laid aboard old clipper ships, and in New England and the mysterious Orient. Novarro plays the part of a young sailor, one of three seagoing brothers who, in an amazing tangle of love and adventure, figures in desperate runs across the Pacific, mutiny and other graphic details incidental to a charming love story. Mary Pickford’s latest and most delightful picture, “My Best Girl,” will also be shown. This picture shows the star as a li,ttle shop girl who falls in love with the manager’s son. “If Youth But Knew,” the final attraction, is a picture based on the sensational play of the same name. Lillian Hall-Davis has a featured role.