BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 13

BRITANNIA

“THE LOVE MART”

’ The Love Mart,” with Gilbert Roland and Billie Bove in the leading roles, to be shown at the Britannia Theatre to-night, is a stirring story of the “good” old days of the early nineteenth century, when slave running was the source of many a lucrative income. ’ The Love Mart” was -adapted by Benjamin Glazer from a story bv Edward Childs Carpenter, and ' concerns a stirring romance of a beautiful Creole maiden in the valiant times of old Aew Orleans when pirates and slave-runners infested the Gulf and made life a hazardous experience Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery and a laige cast of notable players support principals with great success. Ihe old inn, in which the most exciting action of the picture takes place, was constructed from an old aliip grounded on the sands at New Orleans; the slave market, the gay Tivoli cate; the streets of the old French quarter o£ the romantic city the fencing academy—these and other ettective scenes make the Aim one that satishes the eye, even as the story satisfies the mind. y

Edmund Cobb, star of many Western Photoplays, appears in the featured human role supporting -Dynamite” the police dog starring in Wolf’s trail” the latest thriller released by Universal It is a fast moving sensational portrayal of work of the Texas Kan&ers in breaking up border smuggling, aid 01 an al niost human dog! Cobbis supported by a big cast induing Dixie Lamont. Edwin Terry, Joe Bennett and others. Basil Dickey wrote the story and the picture was mad? by Francis Ford.