“LOST AT THE FRONT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 15

“LOST AT THE FRONT”

AT PRINCESS TO-MORROW “An army of pretty women!” is a statement that just misses being: an actual fact in “Lost at the Front,” a hilarious war comedy of an entirely new sort that will feature the entertainment bill at the Princess Theatre to-morrow. It misses because a few of the women in the feminine army used in the picture are plump, a few grotesquely angular. But the majority who appear in scenes in which the famous

Russian Battalion of Deatn figure are Pulchritude itself! “Lost at the Front,” directed by Del Lord, co-stars George Sidney and Charlie Murray, with Natalie. Kingston, First National leading lady* and Wampus Baby Star for fO-7, as its eye-taking feminine attraction. The principal locale of the story, which Frank Griffin wrote, is the Russian front during the world war. Murray upsets all his previous comedy records as an Irish, policeman who gets tangled up in the Russian army. George Sidney, of “Potash and'Perlmutter” stage fame, also outdoes himself as Murray’s comedy tearnmate, in the role of a German reservist called to the front. In riotous action that includes the Battalion of Death, however. Sidney and Murray “flee” under various flogs, and even submit to examination as candidates for the feminine battalion. Miss Kingston appears as Olga, a Russian sculptress. The picture abounds with mirth from beginning to end. The story of a shy young man overwhelmed with three great desires is told in "The Timid Terror,” an F. B. O. production starring George O’Hara wtiich will also be shown to-morrow. George plays the role of a youth who is possessed with the idea to makegood in spite of his timidity, and sets as his prime goal a promotion which will bring him the right to marry the girl he loves.