PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 16

PRINCESS

“DRUMS OF THE DESERT” For the first time since leaving - the “slapstick” comedy ranks, Ford Sterling is playing in a drama of the great open spaces. As bis introduction to outdoor dramas, Sterling was given the featured comedy role in “Drums of the Desert,” Paramount’.? production of Zane Grey’s “Desert Bound,” dealing with the discovery of oil on an Indian reservation in the south-west, and the efforts of unscrupulous whites to rob the red men of their rights. Ford portrays a travelling fakir, always ready to turn his hand to any field of activity that promises monetary return, whether it be “painless” dentistry or desert guiding, regardless of complete ignorance concerning either. As Painless Perkins. Sterling is said to give one of his funniest portrayals. Warner Baxter and 'Marietta Millner, the latter Paramount’s newest actress from overseas, a sparklingeyed Viennese brunette, who makes her American debut in “Drums of the Desert,” now being shown at the Princess Theatre, play the romantic parts. John Waters, maker of “Born to the West,” and “Man of the Forest,” directed this new Zone Grey, called by many the finest Western since “The Vanishing Race.”