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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 15

In her role as the loyal little homebuilder in “When the Wife’s Away,” a Master Picture due for early release, Dorothy Revier expects to be laughed at, and certainly hopes so. “But it’ll be sympathetic laughter,” she preI dieted, “because almost any young wife would do the same sort of thing and get herself and her husband into the same sort of complications.” Without the artistry of Emil Jannings the German-made Master Picture, “The Last Laugh,” would never have been the success it proved itself to be on the Continent, in England and America. Jannings is admitted by the ! entire industry as being the greatest character actor of the period. This great * photoplay is devoid of all slapstick ten- | dencies and cheap movie devices, yet 1 hardened picture-goers, critics and I fans alike have sat through it spelli bound, now laughing, now weeping. There is no play-acting in “The Last Laugh”—it is reality and Emil JanI nings.