STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 14

STRAND

“THE STUDENT PRINCE” Only four more days remain for Auckland picturegoers to visit the j Strand Theatre, where a glorious I screen version of the glorious musical opera. “The Student Prince,” is being presented. The new picture is a vivid version of the famous old romance of a prince who found love at Old Heidelburg. Ramon Novarro plays the prince, Karl Heinrich, and an elaborate cast, including thirty-five principals, and several thousand extras take part. Such spectacular scenes as coronation ceremonies and revels of the university students are high lights in the great love story. "Whole towns were built, great castles reproduced, and other elaborate detail worked out for the huge production. A magnificent musical and stage prologue precedes the screening of the photoplay. Miss Etta Field is the soloist, and sings that beautiful number, “Deep in My Heart.” The Strand Symphony Orchestra under the conductorship of Eve Bentley accompanies Miss Field. Throughout the screening of “The Student Prince,” the Strand Symphony Orchestra plays the golden melodies from the opera. A beautiful technicolour film, “The Virgin Queen,” relating the life of Queen Elizabeth and chivalrous Sir Walter Raleigh and a Strand Magazine are on the . programme. LYRIC “GREAT WELL” THIS EVENING One of the funniest film farces by those sophisticated comedians, Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle, entitled “Wickedness Preferred,” will be shown for the first time at the Lyric Theatre this evening. The story tells of the astonishing adventures on a desert island of a novelist who has made his name as a writer of “cave-man” fiction. Supporting players include George K. Arthur ar/1 Bert Roach. lAn outstanding story, which has been acclaimed the greatest dramatic picture of a decade. “The Great "Well” will be the second attraction this evening. It tells of jealousy and hatred between two erstwhile friends, engineers in a forgotten corner of India, arising from a girl whom one of the engineers marries. Seena Owen and Thurston Hall, renowned as dramatic players, have the leading roles.