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LON CHANEY IN “MOCKERY” “Mockery,” now being shown at the Grand Theatre, is a vivid drama of the Russian revolution, with Chaney in the strange role of a hermit-like peasant thrust by an odd trick of fate into the heart of the struggle between peasantry and aristocracy. The hopeless slavery of the serfs and peasants is contrasted against the life of aristocrats, and the conflagration that changed the destiny of a nation forms the background for a remarkable drama of love and sacrifice. Barbara Bedford plays the heroine of the new picture, and Ricardo Cortez is seen in the romantic lead as the young officer she loves. Charles Puffy as a sinister revolutionary, Kai Schmidt, Mack Swain, Emily Fitzroy, and others of note are in the cast. The picture was staged on a lavish scale, with homes of the aristocrats, strange Russian village inns and other lavish detail depicting Russia at the time of the revolutionary struggle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 15
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