PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 361, 23 May 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

REG. DENNY TO-MORROW "‘That’s My Daddy,” Reginald Denny’s latest comedy picture, will commence to-morrow at the [Princess and Tivoli Theatres. This very gay comedy of situations starts with a white lie told by a little five-year-old girL Denny tells another lie to save her from a spanking and has to plunge himself into an inextricable maze of prevarication to cover up his original innocent fib. This creates many laughable situations highly amusing to the audience, but which wouldn’t be so funny if one were in the same fix oneself. However, one of the secrets of comedy is to have the hero bring about the situation in which he finds himself through his own misguided actions. Barbara Kent plays opposite Denny, while the supporting cast includes Lillian Rich, Tom O’Brien, Armand Kaliz, Charles Coleman, Wilson Benge and Art Currier. Denny wrote the story himself. The second feature on the programme to-morrow will be a remarkable picture taken in the wilds of Alaska, entitled “’Neath Arctic Skies,” a picture of miracles, of wonders that leave one overwhelmed by their gigantic sweep and grandeur. The break-up of the Yukon River in Alaska every spring has been described as Nature’s most gigantic spectacle, but its mighty grandeur and terrifying beauty must be seen to be appreciated. At the risk of their lives, Arthur Young and Captain Jack Robertson made the hazardous journey to the upper* reaches of the Yukon to film this mightiest of Nature’s wonders, and it affords one of tlie many intensely dramatic moments to be seen in “’Neath Arctic Skies.” Greta Garbo and Lar§ Hanson, the two greatest screen players Sweden lias ever contributed, were directed in “The Divine Woman,” by Victor Seastrain, believed by many to be the greatest film director ever produced by tiiat country. Hanson was directed by Seastrom when lie appeared opposite Lillian Gish in ’’The Scarlet Letter,” but “The Divine Woman” marks Seastrom’s initial direction of Miss Garbo. The picture is a film adaptation of Gladys Unger’s stage play, “Starlight.”