STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 223, 9 December 1927, Page 14

STRAND

“THE MUSIC MASTER” To-day at the Strand Theatre the ■fiorious screen version of the famous stage play. ‘The Music Master,” with Lois Moran. - Meil Hamilton, Alec Francis and William Tilden, the tennis star, will be shown for the first time in Auckland. As might be expected, the screen version of “The Music Master” allows the stage version closely. Most oi the action of the picture .takes place in 1900 and the period immediately following. The Mew York of that day, with all its quaint charm, furnishes the background for the drama. Costumes of the nineteen hundreds contribute considerably to the beauty of the picture. The big church wedding scene, in which Lois _ Moran is married to Neil Hamilton, is .strongly reminiscent of the Yanderbilt-Marl-borough ceremony. Clothes, the line of march and the attendants are similar to the party that attended the Duke of Marlborough and Consuela Vanderbilt. . Life in a boarding house and in the music halls of that day bring in many humorous bits, in marked contrast with the dramatic climax in which the music master claims his lost daughter. Eve Bentley and her popular orchestra will play an appropriate musical programme, and will feature as their overture, “Rose Marie.” A Strand Magazine, a Fox News and Fox Variety Film, an hilarious Our Gang comedy, “High Society.” and an Aesop Fable complete the notable programme.