EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 10

EDENDALE

“UPSTREAM” Earle Fox, popular comedian, has the leading masculine role in “Upstream,” a John Ford production for Fox Films, coming to the Edenda.le Theatre to-night. Nancy Nash plays opposite Foxe in this comedj'-drama of American theatrical life. The story, a screen version of “The Snake’s Wife,” written by Wallace Smith, was adapted by Randall H. Faye. The scene is laid in New York and London. The plot centres about the activities of a presumptuous young a**, tor who achieves greatness as a Shakesperean tragedian by virtue of some timely advice given by an older star. Comedy and tragedy are blended in the lives of a group of “professionals,” who live in a typical theatrical boarding house in Forty-sixth Street. The cast includes Raymond Hitchock, Emile Chautard, Grant Withers, Judy King, Jane Wilton, Lillian Worth, Harry Bailey, Francis Ford, Ted McNamara, Sammy Cohen, Lydia Yeamans, Titus, and others. “The Blue Danube,” starring Lya de Mara, will also be screened to-night. Based upon the world-famous waltz by Johann Strauss, the picture .s indeed one of which the great composer might well be proud. It admirably conveys the spirit of love, life, and laughter, which the master violinist helped to create. Among the women stars, Pola Negri is as thorough in her preparation and characterisations as any woman on the screen to-day. No better example of this could be had than Miss Negri’s work in “Barbed Wire,” which is taken from Hall Caine’s "The Woman of Knockaloe.” Miss Negri’s pictur:#.tion of Mona, the peasant girl, especially in some of. the high dramatic points, is a positive inspiration,