STRAND
LAST TWO DAYS OF “RAMONA” Only to-night apd to-morrow remain for Auckland pic«.uregoers to visit the Strand and view tho beautiful photoplay, "Kamona," with its charming prologue and beautiful musical accompaniment. On Wednesday at the Strand Theatre begins “The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands,” produced with the full support and assistance of the Admiralty without which a film of such scope could never have been made. It is the greatest film ever produced in Great Britain. It is also the greatest naval picture produced anywhere. It is something jnore. Not only is it a pictorial enactment of tho most stirring and dramatic naval engagements of modern times, but a national effort to put on record a national achievement in tho national interest. During the Great War, grumbles were many and frequent at tho secrecy with which the authorities veiled the movements of ships and troops. In no instance was the value of secrecy and silence so triumphantly demonstrated as in the Falkland® engagement. After the smashing victory of Coronel In which tho British ships were outranged and outgunned, not only had the disaster to be avenged, but the Falkland Islands saved. Without a sign or a word, the Invincible and Inflexible sailed from Devonport on November 11, arriving at the Falklands a few hours before Von Spee’s squadron, which was intent upon destroying the wireless station and seizing the coal stores. Secrecy and silence were weapons as potent as the guns of the British squadron. Sturdee arrived exactly in time and cleared the southern seas of a menace to British trade and British supremacy. ADOLPHE MENJOU AT CAPITOL One of Adolphe Menjou’s latest pictures, “A Night of Mystery,” is now at the Capitol Theatre. The production is Ernest Vajda’s adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s stage play, “Captain Ferreol,” and presents Menjou as the handsome and dashing captain of the French-African Chausseurs. who becomes involved in the killing as a result of a love tryst with a married woman. A merry comedy, starring the popular actress, Laura La Plante, entitled “Finders Keepers,” will also be shown. Following the success of “The Vanishing Pioneer” and “The Water Hole,” Paramount has started work on “Avalanche,” another Zane Grey story, with a cast that includes Jack Holt, Baclanova, Doris Hill, and Jolyi Darrow. Otto Brower is directing, and the unit has left Hollywood for Arizona. F. W. Murnau. the great European director, whoso first picture made in America, was “Sunrise” for Fox Films, has just completed his second production for that exchange. This is titled “The Four Devils/' and is a story of circus life in Continental Europe. Lovely Janet Gaynor has the leading role, and is supported by Charles Morton. Nancy Drexel. Bajrry Norton and Mary Duncan, the celebrated stage performer. One of the most interesting members of the cast of players in “Fleetwing.” the Fox Films production, is Sultan, the white Arabian stallion. This beautiful animal crossed two oceans and a continent to play his part in the desert scenes of this Fox production. Barry Norton, who as the young sheik, rides him through most of the action, says that Sultan possesses an intelligence that is uncannily human.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 15
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