CAPITOL
LON CHANEY IN “MOCKERY” From a Chinese aristocrat to a Russian peasant—this is the gamut of the roles of Eon Chaney, who last played the mysterious "Mr. Wu,” took a “flier” as a Spanish circus freak doing an "armless wonder” act in “The Unknown” —and now is playing a desperate Russian peasant revolutionist in "Mockery," which is being shown at the Capitol Theatre , , This film, directed by Benjamin Christensen, the Banish director, is a vivid drama of the period of terror in Siberia when the Red hordes overthrow the White Army and surge over Russia in a maelstrom of revolt. Chaney plays a Siberian peasant, product of years of oppression, slavery and hardship under the iron heel of the old Russian imperialism, who, by a Strange trick of fate, suddenly finds himself leader of a revolution and one of the masters of his vast C °“Her Wild Oat,” starring Colleen Moore, is also being shown to-night.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 17
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