GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 14

GRAND

“LAST DAYS OF POMPEII”

Torrid love scenes against a background of snow help to make “Body and Soul,” now being shown at the Grand Theatre, one of the most interesting productions of the season. It is doubtful whether there are two screen artists alive to-day who are more suited to the leading romantic roles of this great picture than Aileen Pringle and Norman Kerry. The intensely dramatic scenes where the jealousy-crazed doctor ties his wife and compels her to watch him as he heats his great brass seal with which to brand her, so that all men know her as his property, are played with remarkable cleverness both on the part of Barrymore and Miss Pringle. “The Last Days of Pempeii,” a great picture on a tremendous theme, will also be shown.

Gustav von Seyffertitz, who was old man Grimes in Mary Pickford’s “Sparrows” and the prime minister in Samuel Goldwyn’s “The Magic Flame,” has been cast by Norma Talmadge in the role of a banker in “The Woman Disputed,” her second United Artists picture. Henry King is now directing in Hollywood this screen version of the Dennison Clift play. The cast includes Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent and Boris de Fas. The story, laid in a setting on the Austrian-Russian border, centres about the love of two youths, an Austrian and a Russian —friends before the World War and later officers in enemy armies—for a girl of the streets. A full-sized reproduction of a cathedral square in an Austrian city is one of the settings erected at tne United Artists Studio for “The Woman Disputed.”