STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 17

STRAND

“THE STUDENT PRINCE” “The Student Prince” is a brilliant success, and is another instance of a screen version, produced on a truly magnificent scale, proving more popular than the stage play. This, photoplay, which sets entirely new standards o£ beauty, pageantry and enthralling entertainment, commences on its se<?» i ond week of screening at the Strand Theatre to-morrow evening. •‘The Student Prince” is a story the : world loves; a story that has been i played in every corner of the world — j and as a screen play it makes history. Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer have added a new triumph to the screen as a whole, and have given the 1 silent drama a new classic. The settings are gorgeous. The Heidelberg garden, with the huge castle frowning down upon it from the hills in the distance and a whole town laid out along the banks of the river beyond, are most elaborate pieces of scenic construction. An atmospheric prologue precedes the screening of the photoplay. This is a beautiful stage and musical interlude, and is entirely in keeping with, the customary high standard maintained at this theatre. Miss Etta Field. one of Auckland’s leading singers, is the soloist. The musical programme provided byEve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Orchestra, does much to enhance the entertainment. Melodies from the beautiful opera are played charmingly, and a 'section is featured as the overture. An interesting Strand Magazine concludes the programme. EMPIRE SHOWS “WYOMING” A romantic story of the pioneer days, starring Tim McCoy, is “Wyoming,” to be shown this evening at the Empire Theatre. The story is one of the early settlement days when whole families travelled by covered wagons along the Oregon trail to Wyoming to productive lands in the interior—wagon loads of courage and endurance, or good humour and high hopes, of love making and not a few happy marriages en route. Tim McCoy as a young cavalry officer of the ’Bo’s is dashing and handsome, and though he warns Samantha Farrell not to proceed with her caravan into the Indian lands as the Red men are restive, that spirited young lady defies him—rides into a j tragic ambush—and he appears to I great advantage in a hard-riding, desi perato fighting attempt to rescue her. ! "Love Me and the World is Mine,” starring Mary Philbin and Norman [ Kerry, will also be shown.