PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 17

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“HINEMOA” TO-NIGHT “The Romance of Hinemoa” comes to the screen at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres to-day and makes the most beautiful Maori legend a thing of reality. . .The love of Hinemoa and Tutanekai is the oldest story in the world, set In the glorious scenery of Lake Rotorua and the awe-inspiring crater of an active volcano. New Zealand audiences will be amazed at its beauty, its truth and its dramatic force. “The Romance of Hinemoa” took six months to complete, and Mr. Gustav Pauli, one of England’s finest producers, came out to produce it. Recently the picture was shown in London and received flattering notices from thp London Press. Apart from the charm of the story, the picture has an atmospheric background all the more interesting because it is authentic and part of the drama. There’s a prize fight in the next picture, and the hero doesn’t win it! The picture is “Alias the Deacon,” a Universal-Jewel production directed by Edward Sloman, with Jean Hersholt in the starring role, which will be also shown to-night at the Princess and Tivoli. Few are the directors who would admit that the leading man couldn’t stop Gene Tunney or Jack Dempsey if they battled on the screen, but Sloman determined to avoid the obvious and hackneyed movieism and substitute logic in its place. “Alias the Deacon” is an -unusual production in many ways and promises to be one of the outstanding pictures. It presents Jean Hersholt, the prominent character actor, in a sympathetic role, one of the few he has ever played on the screen, and, as did “The Old Soak,” shows the actor in a completely new personality. “Alias the Deacon” was adapted by Charles Kenyon from the play of the same name which enjoyed such prosperous seasons in New York, Chicago and several other large cities. June Marlowe, Tom Kennery, Myrtle Stedman, Lincoln Plummer, Ned Sparks, Maurice Murphy and others are in the supporting cast.

Dorothy Sebastian, Montague Love, Tom Sanchi, Pat Harmen and Ray Hallor have been selected to form the main cast of “The Ghost Ship,” the first of four Jack London sea stories to be made by Tiffany for Master Picture release during 1928. The other three are: “Stormy Waters,” “The Devil Skipper” and “Sea Prowlers.” The Dolores Costello starring vehicle “The College Widow” has been completed and is the last production of Warner’s 1926-27 schedule for Master Pictures release. “The College Widow” is adapted from a well-known story by George Ade. William Collier, jun., Anders Randolph. Douglas Gerrard, Grace Gordon and Charles Hill Malles, complete the cast. Wallace Beery recently returned to Hollywood from a hunting trip to his lodge near Silver Lake, in the Sierras. He will begin work shortly with his comedy team-mate. Raymond Hatton, in “The Big Game Hunt.” Prank Strayer, who will direct, is now working on the with Grover Jones, who wrote “The Gay Defender.”