STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 14

STRAND

“RESURRECTION” The season of “Resurrection” is now drawing to a close, and all Strand patrons desirous of viewing this work, and the magnificent musical and stage presentation which accompanies the screening of the film, are advised to make the most of these last few days. “Resurrection” is a very human study of bared souls under the lash of selfish pasisons, and of great sacrifice to which a higher love of man for woman and woman for man lifted prince and peasant. The spirit and letter of Tolstoy’s great novel has been faithfully preserved in the screen version, and the ending of the picture is the logical ending of the novel, with the moral to be found in the story itself. Rod La Rocque in the role of Prince Dmitri plays three characters in one, giving the changes that take place in the soul of the prince and their reflection in his physical appearance. As the dashing, impulsive young prince who declares his love for the peasant girl, Katusha Maslova, he is boyish and carefree. Months later Rod La Rocque is shown as a man to whom nothing is sacred, fo whom the whole perspective of life is changed. Finally, as the lover, a fine, upstanding and worthy prince whose soul has been purged in the fires of understanding love, La Rocque reaches the peak. The star is perfectly balanced by Dolores Del Rio as the young peasant girl who bears the brunt of the prince’s sin. A finished performance by this versatile senora in the famous part of Katusha Maslova proves her dramatic ability. Preceding the screening of the photoplay is a magnificenet musical and stage spectacle. Eve Bentley’s augmented Strand Symphony Orchestra plays Tschaikowsky’s famous “1812,” finishing with a grand stage spectacle, “The Burning of Moscow.”