ROYAL, KINGSLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 13

ROYAL, KINGSLAND

“THE PRINCE OF PILSEN” Seldom have there been screened | such scenes of royal splendour as some of those seen in the film version of I The Prince of Pilsen,” featuring Anita Stewart and George Sidney, which will be shown at the Theatre Royal. Kingsland. The sequences laid in the throne room of Thorwald Castle, picturing a royal marriage, between Myrtle Stedman, as the Princess Rertha, and George Sidney, as the pseudo Prince of Pilsen, are especially lavish, even in these days of elaborate motion pictures. The gigantic setting was filled with court dignitaries, palace guards in their striking military costumes, and guests from neighbouring principalities. There was also a display of strikingly fantastic gowns, and then an ecclesiastical procession headed by an archbishop of the church, immediately preceding the entrance of the bride, flanked by bridesmaids with flowing trains of pearls. Those who revelled in the stage play of “The. Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” presented in Australasia last year, will be interested to know that Sam Taylor is to return to the United Artists’ studio to direct “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” for Gloria Swanson. This picture is scheduled to go into production as soon as Miss Swanson returns from Xew York says the ‘‘Exhibitors Herald” of December 3 —so it should be well under way by now.