STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 17

STRAND

“COLLEGE” Audiences at the Strand Theatre this week are getting an hilarious new angle on what happens behind the scenes in our leading educational institutions. And, incidentally, they are discovering why pretty co-eds prefer the athletic rah! rah! boys to the brainy lads who are sharks in calculus but who can’t, rigure out how many forward passes make a toucl I own. Buster Keaton provides the enlightenment in his spectacular United Artists’ comedy “College.” The frozenfaced star starts out as a bookworm, a university highbrow de luxe, and he winds up as a bone-breaking, firebreathing varsity star. He doesn’t become an athlete because he particularly likes strenuous sport, but because his sweetheart shames him into an ambition for physical prowess. ••College” is a real photo-scream and a picture with a story which holds the spectators’ interest all the time. Although the feature is crammed with laughs, it also lias a delightful love story and a number of thrilling moments which would do credit to any melodrama. The climax of “College is a boat race in which Keaton, as a coxswain, blunders his crew to victory while thousands of spectators look on. Among the actors and actresses who share laurels in Keaton’s supporting cast are Ann Cornwall, the comedian's dainty leading lady; Grant W ithers, Florence Turner, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards. Buddy Mason, James Mack and Flora Bramley. _ “College” is a credit to Joseph M. Schneck, who produced the comedy; to James W. Horne, Buster’s director, and to Devereaux Jennings and Bert Haines, whose photography is a revelation in lighting, shading and unusual camera angles. A. full supporting programme is presented in which a special feature is a film of the Schneider Cup race. Other films are a highly-diverting comedy, showing 1 some of the latest Parisian programme of _J® nresented bv Miss tivenyth hi alls, who recently returned to Auckland Fvo Bentley s popular btund bjm nliony Orchestra, renders one of their musical programmes, and play as overture, /selection from the ‘ Pinafore” music.