PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 390, 26 June 1928, Page 14

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“WHITE WINGS” A film to make every Britisher thrill with pride is “White Wings,’’ being shown for the last two days at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres, with Elinor Fair and William Boyd in the leading roles. “White Wings" is an epic of the sea

in every sense of the word. It tells of a race between two full-rigged ships away back in 1850 from Foochow, China, to Boston, U.S.A. Most of the scenes take place on board the American contestant, the “Yankee Clipper,” which struck a storm and was delayed by the heavy seas. At length the British ship the “Lord of the Isles” is sighted, and soon after Boston Harbour Light appears above the horizon. Hal the American captain, uses every trick of seamanship he knows, and slowly the “Yankee Clipper” gains on her antagonist. As a last resort, he sets every available stitch of canvas, even at the risk of losing his masts, and sends the crew aloft to wet the sails down. Foot by foot the “Yanke© Clipper” creeps up, but the English skipper is too old a mariner to be caught napping, and so, by the narrowest of margins, the “Lord of the Isles” wins the greatest sea race on record. Absorbed in the contest, Hal has not. noticed the presence of Jocelyn. Then, as he sinks dejectedly to a seat, a little hand steals into his, and the sweetest voice in the world tells him that, if he has lost the race, he has won—love. A spectacular, forceful depiction of the hectic days on the Galician-Rus-sian border just after the outbreak of the war in 1914 is the theme of the impressive love drama, “Surrender!” which is the second feature on the programme. A colourful Galician town is the local© of the story. It is here that the Russians and the Austrians vie for supremacy, and Mary Philbin, as a little Galician, falls in love with Ivan Mosjukine, who enacts the role of a Russian prince. The love story between the little peasant girl and the prince is one which calls for intense emotional acting, and again Miss Philbin excels in a way which reasserts her position as the screen’s most beautiful and cleverest actress