Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 10, 1928

Oh, Kay! There were three outstanding reasons for going to see the music show whence this cinema derived its name, part of its plot. Those reasons—Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw—are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners.

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