“WICKEDNESS PREFERRED” AT GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 15

“WICKEDNESS PREFERRED” AT GRAND

‘’Wickedness Preferred,” now at the -Grand Theatre, is one of those delightful comedies of an inexperienced author and a flighty young blonde who assumes that an author must know all about the emotions referred to in his books. When the blonde, v. no was married, makes up her mind to run away to a desert island with so romantic an author, the fun really starts, especially as the author’s wife joins in for encouragement. Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle have the main comedy roles in this picture. “The Prince of Adventurers,” a spectacular and magnificent production of the life and times of Casanova, will also be shown. “THE WISE WIFE” AT BRITANNIA Bright comedy of domestic worries is the attraction at the Britannia Theatre this evening, in “The Wise Wife,” starring Marie Prevost. The story of the picture deals with a woman whose husband’s love for her is on the wane. He spends much of his time with a charming flapper and actually plans divorce in order to marry the latter. When the wife learns the truth, she wisely plans to make her husband jealous. She appears to fall in with his plans and constitutes the flapper his companion, obliging her to darn his socks and prepare his meals. She then blossoms into a flapper and pays marked attention to the fiance of the flapper, and a double jealousy is awakened with the result that the husband’s love for his wife is finally regained. •'Vamping Venus,” a story of modern New York and Ancient Greece, starring Louise Fazenda and Charlie Murray, will also be shown. “SECRETS OF THE EAST” “Secrets of the East,” the TJ.F.A. spectacle which was recently shown privately in London, is, in the opinion of all those who have seen it, the greatest entertainment that has been seen in London for many months. Apart from its colourful pictorial values, its dramatic thrills, romance and skill, make it wonderfully entertaining through every foot. Ivan Petrovitch. who appeared in “The Garden of Allah” with Alice Terry, plays the handsome Oriental Prince. The film is listed for release by Cinema Art Films during 1929. NOW WITH UNITED ARTISTS Norma Talmadge makes her bow as a United Artists star and ownermember with “The Dove,” her first picture for that organisation, which will shortly be seen in Auckland. No sooner had Norma ashed "The Dove" than Joseph M. Schenck announced that sir tance would als join United Artists and make George Barr McCutehen’s “East of the Setting Sun.” Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, friends of Norma and Constance in the Biograph-E. \V. Griffiths days, are also with United Artists. ‘‘King of the Mountains,” is the title of Juliu Barrymore’s forthcoming production for United Artists. Some of the exterior scenes have already been shot, and the remainder, which will be taken in the Swiss mountains, will be shortly completed. Ernst Lubitsch is directing, and the supporting cast includes Camilla Horn and Mona Rico, the beautiful Mexican recently discovered by Lubitsch.