THE STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 15

THE STRAND

CHANGE OF PROGRAMME “Each programme is better than the last,” is the plan upon which the Humphrey Bishop Company works. The first programme was excellent, and drew packed houses nightly. The second programme was even better, had more sparkle and snap, and drew huge audiences. Now comes along the third programme, which is the pick of them all. Mr. Humphrey Bishop has arranged this third programme, so that the best comedy sketches, songs, dance numbers, orchestral novelties and concerted vocal items are included. Owing to the great popularity of the operatic excerpt from “Tannhauser” last week, Mr. Humphrey Bishop has arranged another from “II Trovatore,” and special costumes and scenery will be used. The inimitable comedians, “Seratcher” Ross and Charles Albert, will be seen in further amusing sketches, while Walter Kingsley, the popular English baritone, will render a selection of vocal items. The Strand Symphony Orchestra and the Humphrey Bishop Company’s musicians will again be combined, and will play a speciallycompiled musical programme. “The Ranger of the Big Pines,” an adaptation of Hamlin Garland’s forceful novel, "Cavanagh, Forest Ranger,” will be the principal pictorial feature on the programme to commence a short season at the Strand Theatre to-mor-row. Kenneth Harlan enacts the leading role, that of Ross Cavanagh, a member of the Forest Rangers, the representatives of - law and order in the vast cattle lands in the Western United States. The story deals mainly with a feudal warfare that is waged against, the rangers by a number of ranch owners, who are anxious to preserve their supremacy in the district. Helen Costello is seen in the leading feminine role, while other important parts are played by Eulalie Jensen. Will Walling, and Lew Harvey. The picture was filmed almost entirely in the picturesque Rocky Mountain country and contains many beautiful and spectacular scenes, while the photography is of a very high order.