Round the Shows

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 14

Round the Shows

“LOST IN THE ARCTIC” EPIC OF THE FROZEN WASTES Critics who have previewed “Lost in the Arctic,” made by the world-famous explorers, H. A. Snow and his son, Sidney Snow, acclaim this as the greatest picture ever come out of the Arctic. Special tribute is paid to Sidney Snow, who did the actual camera work, for his daring in making close-ups of an 80-ton whale lashing the waters as he tows the light camera boat through the Arctic waters at ex-press-train speed; also, for the remarkable close-ups of the capture alive of the largest polar bear ever taken. The bear weighs just under a ton, and is now in the zoo at Oakland, California. As a high-light of this picture is the discovery on Herald Island, a bleak bit of rock jutting up through the frozen Arctic, of the remnants of a party of eight scientists who perished there when they left the Stefannson expedition in 1913 to seek land when their ship was ground to pieces in the ice. Particular interest attaches flb this picture at the moment because it is typical of the territory in which General Nobile was marooned. It graphically pictures the dangers with which Arctic travel is fraught, James Kirkwood has been cast for an important part in the Charles Rogers starring picture for Paramount, “Just Twenty-one.” Kirkwood is on© of the old Paramount actors, and Incidentally one of the finest character artists in Hollywood. Mary Brian is playing the lead opposite Rogers. |

EVERYBODY’S “THE WISE WIFE” It has been said that “clothes make the man,” but how about the woman? If the theme of “The Wise Wife,” now at the Everybody’s Theatre, in which Phyllis Haver is featured, may be taken as a criterion, the 'same is true in the case of a woman. Miss Haver, in the title role of Arthur Somer Roche’s story, is domestic —a good cook —in fact, she is a good old-fashioned wife. When Miss Haver finds she is losing her husband to a tw«*tieth century flapper, because he is attracted by the up-to-the-minute dress and mannerisms of the “other woman,” she alters her ways and at once changesi her dress. She goes the flapper one better, she wears her skirts a little shorter, and she is a little more extreme in her mannerisms. She wins her husband back, and establishes herself truly as “The Wise Wife.” Jacqueline Logan plays the important role of the flapper, while the husband is portrayed by Tom Moore. Joseph Striker also is featured' in the cast. Emil Jannings, in “The Last Command,” is the second attraction. In this picture the great actor has the role of a former Russian general, who becomes a mere “extra” actor at Hollywood. Paul Lukas, recently signed as a Paramount featured player, has an important role in the Nancy CarrollRichard Arlen Paramount production, “The Shop Worn Angel.”