“SMILE, BROTHER, SMILE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 15

“SMILE, BROTHER, SMILE”

COMING TO PRINCESS ‘•Smile, Brother. Smile,” the First National production which comes to the Princess Theatre beginning on Thursday has attracted more attention during its filming than almost any other picture of the season. It is based on the life and adventures of n travelling salesman, and when Charles R. Rogers announced ho was planning to produce such a picture he received thousands of letters from truvellingmen, many of which contained valuable suggestions which we.re incorporated into the story. Contents in connection with the picture were held with various commercial magazines. Dorothy Mackail and Jack Mulhall are the featured players. A. remarkable “inside view of the sinister workings of the German intelligence department during the world war forms the basis for tense drama, suspense and thrilling action of ''Her Alan o’ War,” Jetta Goudal's first starring vehicle, which will also be shown at the Princess. This material, rather than the battle scenes to which one is accustomed in war pictures, supplies the grim menace that lies behind the comedy and romance with which the picture is packed. It is a pitting of wits of prisoner, who is really a spy, against the cunning, experienced and scientific head operative of the German secret service, Professor illiam Boyd is the prisoner, Frank Reicher, Uhe professor.