“THE JOY GIRL” TO HEAD NEW BILL AT EVERYBODY’S.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18450, 28 April 1928, Page 10

“THE JOY GIRL” TO HEAD NEW BILL AT EVERYBODY’S.

May Edginton’s very successful novel, “The Joy Girl,” is here as a Fox picture, with Olive Borden in the scintillating role of one of the most amusing modern girls ever to emanate from an author’s pen. At Everybody’s Theatre next week this flighty and humorous record of a girl’s adventures and misadventures in the marriage market will be screened, and is expected to give as much pleasure as did the book. “The Joy Girl” is the story of a spoiled, girl's reaction to poverty and a careless world; it is a story that is generously adorned with high society and Palm Beach and fashionable cabarets, . but it is also a most discerning and penetrating study of that, malinged person, Miss 1028. It is a story told with a sense of humour, even when the Joy Girl’s joyous sense is becoming slightly warped through rubbing shoulders with an unsympathetic world; it is always exhilirating and amusing, but is, to the keener observer, something deeper. “The Joy Girl” runs the gamut from prodigious wealth to the other extreme, and when my lady poverty makes her bow, the heroine promptly puts herself on the marriage mart, at Palm Beach, and there trails her beauty aud her charm for the delectation of those who may, or may not, be interested. Iler misadventures come first, apd’she is badly let down by an impish fate; her adventures revolve round Neil Hamilton, whom one immediately takes, upon first beholding him fade in on the picture, to be the man who must take the joyous one in hand and teach her a sense of values. Neil Hamilton created a profound impression in a dramatic role in “Beau Geste,” but in “The Joy Girl” he shows a lighter touch and is a determining factor in the success of the film. A large cast support Miss Borden and Hamilton. a The second picture is “Reckless’ Speed,” a comedy-drama, as are all speed pictures, for there is something so very diverting about speeding that even a movie producer cannot approach the momentous question in serious mood. “Reckless Speed” features Frank Merrill, who knows his accelerator. The Select Orchestra, under the baton of Mr Albert Bidgood, will play the following musical programme: —Overture, “O.rphee aux Enfers” (Offenbach) , suites, “Miniature de Ballet” (Morton), “May Day” (Baynes), “A Journey to Capri” (Soudissi) and “Le Cid” (Massenet) ; overture, “ Ruv Bias” (Mendelssohn); selections, “Molloy’s Songs” (Baynes) and “Sunny” (Gershwin); fox trots, “Dainty Miss” (Grier), “Dewev Day” (Green) and “Broken Hearted” (Kahn); entr’acte, “Elegie” (Massenet). The box. plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.