RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 17

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“WHAT PRICE GLORY” “What Price Glory,” now being shown at the Rialto and Regent Theatres, is the story of the comedy, the drama, the

tragedy, the harshness, the cruelty and the futility of the war as it was lived by the men—and the women—who fought it. It isn’t overplayed, and it isn’t theatrical. Strangely enough comedy forms rhe greater part of this masterful yarn of the war—rich, uproar is h, screaming

comedy. But the drama and tragedy is there, drama that thrills and tragedy that grips. Th«* battle scenes are some of the greatest at which a camera has ever c.icked, either in the real or make-believe. The “big push,” the streaming over the top. the confusion, the terror, the spitting machine-guns. the roaring, tearing, thundering barrages, are enough to make any ex-participant want to dive lor the nearest shell-hole.

The story, of course, revolves around those two hard-boiled, swearing leathernecks —Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt —and their eternal clash over the feminine spoils of war. Victor McLaglen is the battered-nosed, foulmouthed, hardened captain, and IMmund Lowe is the tough sergeant. Dolorcfs del Rio is the charming, chic, delectable Charmaine, who reminds you so much of the girl you left behind— QV§x there,