“THE STUDENT PRINCE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 14

“THE STUDENT PRINCE”

WITH RAMON NOVARRO Castles, streets, towns, villages—these are some of the things built for a. single motion picture in what will probably prove the most elaboratelymade motion picture for years to come. The production is “The Student Prince,” the super-production with Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer in the leading roles. “The Student Prince” was filmed as a new departure on the screen; a simple love story of a boy and girl, but set in surroundings that depict an entire nation. Several thousand people appear in its massive scenes; in the colourful coronation ceremonies; the great public demonstrations of welcome to a new ruler; revels of university students in the inns of Heidelberg, and the making of a new monarch, all worked out with absolute true fidelity to, life. The famous story of the unhappy Prince Karl Heinrich and his pathetic sweetheart of the inn are told just as it was told on the stage, but with a background that the stage could never reproduce. Mr. Novarro plays Karl Heinrich, and Miss Shearer plays Kathie in the film story.

Twenty Cossacks who had actually composed the late- Czar’s personal entourage, were used as members of the suite of the Huke of Bayreuth in the Austrian scenes in “The Prince of Adventurers,” the Universal Film-de-France production of the immortal literary classic “Casanova.” Ivan Mosjoukine heads the cast, which- includes over 70 leading European screen stars.