JOHN GILBERT IN “MONTE CRISTO”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16

JOHN GILBERT IN “MONTE CRISTO”

John Gilbert will shortly be seen in “Monte Cristo,” an old success, which was first released some four years ago. Gilbert, playing the title role, is the hero of the multiple adventure borne by the famous Alexandre Dumas character, and has a cast of stars to support him. The story concerns Edmond Dantes, a young buoyant sailor, who returns from a voyage to marry the charming Mercedes, beloved also by his rival, Fernand. Fernand and another enemy, Danglars, conspire against him, naming Dantes as an ally of Napoleon Bonaparte in a letter to De Villefort, the prosecutor. Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and thrown into a dungeon, where he languishes for fourteen years. But by tunneling his way to another cell he is constantly in the company of an Italian priest, who educates him and leaves him the map of the island of Monte Cristo, where there is untold wealth. How Dantes escapes from prison, and avenges himself on Fernand, Dangals and De Villefort form some of the dramatic sequences. The supporting cast includes Estelle Taylor, Tenee Adoree, Robert McKimm, George Seigmann, Virginia Fair© and Ralph Cloninger.

Dolores Costello, the charming star of “Old San Franicsco,” “His Lady.” and other Warner productions, will shortly be seen in a delightful comedy, “The College Widow.” The daughter of a college principal, she uses her feminine charms too lure good footballers to her father’s college. She succeeds only too well and is found out. However, she manages to straighten things out eventually, but her entanglements create a series of screamingly funny situations.