Tolstoy Novel is Booked for Auckland

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 July 1927, Page 23

Tolstoy Novel is Booked for Auckland

“Resurrection” Filmed MAJESTIC SECURES FEATURE “Resurrection,” the Inspiration Pictures-Edwin Carewe screen version of Tolstoy's novel, with Rod La Rocque starred and Dolores del Rio featured, is in its third comecutive week at the Mark Strand Theatre. This feature has been secured for screening in Auckland shortly by the Majestic Theatre. “Resurrection” is one of a few pictures to play a third consecutive week at the Strand since the house was built. “Resurrection,” which was not roadshowed because of Joseph M. Schenck's promise to exhibitors that United Artists’ Pictures would be given them directly, is the film responsible for Dolores del Rio’s elevation to stardom and for Edwin Carewe’s establishment as an independent producer and director. So successful have been the engagements of “Resurrection” in London. Washington, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, New York and other centres of exhibition, that United Artists will offer in the fall of 1927 Dolores del Rio, starred for the first time, in “Ramona.”

“A. W. O. L.,” a Fox Films war comedy, in which Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara, the team in “What Price Glory,” have featured roles, has been finished.

“The Brute,” Monte Blue’s latest starring picture, is an adaptation of W. Douglas Newton’s story of the west, which is depicted in many unusual locations, including Mount Whitney, Death Valley and the oilfields of Oklahoma. The cast includes Leila Huam*-. Clyde Cook, Carrol Nye and Paul Nicholson. mm*

Says a Hollywood corespondent: “There is a good deal of French spoken on the Menjou set where Ernest Vajda's story. “The Head Waiter,” is under production. The action of the story is laid in Paris, and the director, H. d’Abbadie d’Arrast, is a Frenchman. Adolphe Menjou, though American born, is of French descent/