REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 May 1927, Page 13

REGENT, EPSOM

“THE WHITE BLACK SHEEP” Just how a motion picture director resisted the opportunity to direct a big battle* ;scene is hard to explain un-

less it be that Sidney Olcott allowed logic and reason to preside. The opportunity in question was offered in “The White Black Sheep,” the current Barth elm ess production now showing at the Regent Theatre. Epsom. In this featurei-s. oarineimess there is a scene where Arab troops invade a British garrison and demand its surrender: here-was a rare opportunity to indulge in the usual furore of battle—but instead Olcott preferred to give the British commander credit for intelligence and military acumen, and so he showed him outwitting the Arabs by a clever ruse and effecting their capture without bloodshed. Richard Barthelmess plays the role of Robert Kincairn. son of the colonel, who goes to Palestine, joins the British service and redeems the stigma attached to his name in his aristocratic London circle. Patsy Ruth Miller plays the role of Zelie, an exotic creature of fascinating allure who fights for her man and wins his love.