PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 14

PRINCESS

“LOST AT THE FRONT” “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 is now attracting large audiences to the Princess Theatre. 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 Death 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 Warnpas Baby Star for 1927, as its eye-tak-ing 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 roles 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 teammate, 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 flags, and even submit to examintion as candidates for the feminine battalion. Miss Kingston appears as Olga, a Russian sculptress. The picture abounds with mirth from beginning to end.