AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

iSjULES VERNE’S GREAT STORY

TO-NIGHT,

The first filming of Jules Verne’s hok and play 'is both dramatic and spectacular. Something in the nature of a sensation will be revealed on the screen at the Princess Theatre to-night at the performance of .Jules Verne's famous melodrama “Michael StrogofF,” long popular as a book and as a play, and now. filmed for the first time and presented ,bv Carl Laemmle as a Uni-versal-Film .do France production. A bundsom.e and personable young Russian actor, Ivan Moskine, said to be ‘ ‘Euro]Hi’s idol of the screen,” heads a brilliant group.of principals, supported, by a cast said to number 6.000. 'I he performance of the star as the intrepid hero, “a secret courier of the Czar,’’ was a splendid realization of Verne’s famous character, and leaves nothing to be desired. The story concerns itself with the adventures of StrogofF on a 6.000 mile journey From Moscow to Irkutsk in Siberia, with a message From the Czar to his brother, the Grand Duke, in command of the Russian troops*, who is threatened by an uprising oF the seioi-harbario Tartars under Fcofar, the Grand Kahn. Much of the picture is in natural colour, notably the Grand Rail in the pakue of the Czar; and tiic victory Fete at the camp of the Grand Kahn, a scene of wild and barbaric splendent that may well be classed as one of the most spectacular ever seen in pictures. Tno grim note of indomitable coinage and rugged heroism is well sustained while Ln his love for Nadia, and his forced denial of recognition of his mother, there, is a fine spiritual quality that rises to the height of sublime sacrifice.

Coming: Tuesday—W. C. Fields in “Running Wild” a Paramount Picture. Wednesday—The AA orld’s Championship fight between Heency and Tunney. We will also screen election results during the display.