STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 354, 15 May 1928, Page 14

STRAND

“RESURRECTION” Only three more days remain for Auckland picturegoers to view the wonderful photoplay, “Resurrection,” and the magnificent musical and stage presentation which accompanies the film. This drama of the great Russian’s immortal story grips new and greater millions through this film version. The Tolstoy story of prince and peasant is a throbbingly emotional narrative splendidly portrayed by Rod La Rocque and Dolores Del Rio in the principal roles. La Rocque as Prince Dmitri is well cast and succeeds in registering his versatility as an actor in the several stages of Dmitri’s retrogression and spiritual resurrection. Dolores Del Rio, playing the role of Katusha Maslova in a film directed by her, discoverer, Edwin Carewe, rises to a performance that must be listed among the finest of the year. In tt tremendously human and dramatic part that has been the cherished role of every actress of the stage and screen, the young Mexican actress reveals herself as one of the screen’s finest artists. Preceding the screening of the photoplay is a beautiful musical programme, during which Eve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Orchestra, renders Tshcaikowsky’s famous overture, “1812,” and ending with a magnificent stage spectacle, “The Burning of Moscow.”