PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER” Uproarious comedy touches vie with spectacular stunts in “Hands Across the Border,” Fred Thomson’s latest production, released by Master Pictures, in which the F. B. O. star and Silver King are now appearing. The background of the whole picture is ablaze with colour, romance and speed, and it gives Mr. Thomson perhaps the most picturesque role he has played since “That Devil Quemado.” Frank M. Clifton’s story contains a wealth of humorous situations and amusing incidents. and director Kirkland's handling -of this superb material is all that one could wish for. Nor have spectacular efforts been forgotten, as the audiences who have packed the theatre ever since the picture was first shown here can well attest. ‘Hands Across the Border” will be shown finally to-morrow, and Thomson fans will miss Fred’s finest production to date if they do not see it. Pola Negri’s latest Paramount starring production, “Hotel Imperial,” which is on the same programme, is based on the story and play by Lajos Biro, and has as its background an episode of the World War hitherto unused on the screen—the Russian drive through the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary. Glass factories were recently called upon to work overtime because of the wholesale destruction of tumblers, goblets, and wineglasses, not to mention window panes, in Be be Daniels's new Paramount picture. In “A Kiss in a Taxi,” Miss Daniels takes the part of a French barmaid whose beauty causes every male patron of the place to seek kisses. Each time such an advance is made a shower of glassware directs itself at the intruder. An entire week was taken up with filming these glass-throwing sequences, and the Paramount property department is authority for the statement that three gross of glasses were destroyed. during the crystalline showers. Clarence Badger directed.