“RESURRECTION”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 16

“RESURRECTION”

STRAND’S NEXT GREAT FILM In the him version of Tolstoy’s | “Resurrection,” which will be the next j great film to be shown at the Strand Theatre, every human emotion described in Tolstoy’s immortal classic i of love lost and regained is depicted ' in pantomime. Rod La Rocque is the star, and Dolores Del Rio the featured player. Edwin Carewe, director, was assisted by Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the author of “Resurrection,” in filming the classic novel. The joyous, care-free spirit of youth ne opening sequences, wherein the prince falls in love with the peasant ward of his aunts, and before the first reel is over that white love has turned to purpled passion. Then in rapid fire succession com despair, abandonment, buoyant humour, and utter indulgence, life, utu-Lii, siJiriLUcti i-e-birth following vile degradations, imprisonment, exile, bitterness, and yearning, sacrifice and resurrection itself. The gamut of emotions through which Blanche Walsh on the stage and Mary Garden in opera have swept in the part of Katusha Maslova is now the course of Dolores Del Rio in “Resurrection,” while Rod La Rocque loves and leaves and loves again in the dramatic role of Dmitri, the part which Sir Herbert BeerbohmTree created in London in 1003. Edwin Carewe’s reason for filming “Resurrection” was given last week by the director himself, who played the role of Prince Dmitri on the American stage in ISOS. “The emotional scale is traversed by both Dmitri and Katusha,” said Carewe, “and it is the one great story wherein man and woman alike suffer and triumph in sac- : rifice. I have always thought Toi- ! stoy’s story the most dramatic w ork in existence.”