“DELIVERANCE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 482, 11 October 1928, Page 14

“DELIVERANCE”

PROPAGANDA PICTURE Thero is now boins screened in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Victoria Street, under the auspices of the New Zealand Alliance, a picture entitled “Deliverance.” The picture rs a justification of Prohibition In America. It tells the storv of a young journalist who is commit, sioned to make a survey of the whole Prohibition question and write the true facts for his paper. He is shown interviewing various classes of people throughout American society, and the statistics he compiles as the result of these interviews are extremely interesting. Certainly, the picture proves very clearly that Prohibition has done a great deal of good in America, but it deals only with one side of the question. The picture is not just a series of uninteresting scenes. Through the whole thing there runs a coherent story, ending in the time-honoured fashion, when the young journalist marries the daughter of the wealthy newspaper owner There is also a full supporting programme, including a comedy and a gazette. "Deliverance” will be shewn again this evening ana to-morrow evening. “THE ESCAPE” AT EDENDALE New York, with its teeming tenements and its glittering night clubs, is the locale of "The Escape," starring Virginia Valli, to be shown this evening at the Edendale Theatre. In this colourful background Miss Valli appears first as a lowly girl of “The Kettle.” and later as the vivacious hostess of the Blue Moon, a gilded club owned and operated by Jerry Magee, as portrayed by William Russell “Sally In Our Alley,” with Shirley Mason as Sally. Is the second picture. William Holden has been engaged by Paramount to play the part of Fay Wray's father in sequences of “The First Kiss,” starring Miss Wray and Gary Cooper, now being completed in Hollywood. Almost all of the picture was taken on an outdoor location.