BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 14

BRITANNIA

“DON JUAN” “Don Juan,” which was shown last night at the Britannia Theatre, will be screened there for the last time tonight. The story at the outset shows

little Don Juan inculcated with a hatred of women by his father, who had found his wife to be false to him. The years pass and the love affairs of Don Juan, now grown to man’s estate, become notorious in Rome, where the Borgias are reigning. Lucre-

tia Borgia, famous in history, casts a favourable eye on the handsome young Spaniard and is incensed when he spurns her for another. When he discovers that this other is a sweet and innocent girl, his whole outlook on life changes and sincere love is bred within him. When the Borgias force the girl of his choice to marry a man of their own selection in order to save her father from death, he abducts her at the altar and then challenges the groom to combat. A sword and dagger fight follows and Don Juan finally worsts his opponent. He is thrown into a dungeon beneath the Tiber, but he makes a thrilling escape in time to rescue the girl from fiendish torture. Never before has a picture had such a cast. It includes John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Warner Oland, Montague Love, Helene Costello, Jane Winton, Myrna Loy, John Roche, June Marlowe, Yvonne Day, Phillippe de Lacy, John George, Helen D’Algy, Josef Swickard, Lionel Braham, Phyllis Haver, Nigel de Brulier and Hedda Hopper.