RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 14

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“THE WHIP WOMAN” “The Whip Woman,” starring Estelle Taylor and Antonio Moreno, will be shown to-night at the Rialto and Regent (Epsom) Theatres. The story deals with a beautiful peasant girl, who is adored by men, but who repulses them with blows from the whip which she always carries. Hating all men, she finally falls in love with a dissolute nobleman, and then begins a series of adventures which culminate in a thrilling climax, and an entirely unexpected ending. “The Whip 'Woman” is a novel story, entirely off the beaten path of ordinary pictures, and offers a fine chance for the splendid dramatic work of Miss Taylor and Moreno, who are ideally cast in the leading roles. One of the most fascinating pictures ever made, “’Neath Arctic Skies,” will also be shown. It is a wonderful film of Nature’s grandeur in Alaska, and shows, among other things, 2,000 miles of ice rushing down to the sea.

F. W. Murnau, noted Fox director, has started production on his second American production, “The Four Devils,” with Janet Gaynor in the leading role. In addition to Miss Gaynor are Charles Morton, Nancy Drexel, formerly known as Dorothy Kitchen, Barry Norton, the “mother’s boy” of ‘What Price Glory,” and Mary Duncan. Mr. Murnau is confident that “The Four Devils” will prove an even more popular production than his first American picture, “Sunrise,” which is to have its initial screening in Auckland shortly.

Victor McLaglen, who rose to worldwide popularity as Captain Flagg in “What Price Glory,” is still keeping to uniforms. He put on a New York police and soldier's uniform in “Mother Machree,” and dressed as a mate of an ocean tramp in “A .Girl in Every. Port.”