“THE COSSACKS” AT BRITANNIA
John Gilbert’s latest success, “The Cossacks,” will be shown at the Britannia Theatre this evening. “The Cossacks” is stark drama. It is the story of a young Russian lad, born with a poetic soul, and ears attuned to music, forced by the social customs of his race to the life of endless warfare against the Turk. Still, through it runs the sweetest love story in the world—the romance of a boy and a girl tossed hither and thither by the resistless tide of affairs. Gilbert, as the swashbuckling Cossack soldier on the Russian steppes, is dramatic, dashing—and appealing. Miss Adoree is charming as a peasant girl. Ernest Torrence, as the stern old Cossack chieftain, is a figure of compelling power. “His Tiger Lady,” starring Adolphe Menjou, will also be shown this evening. “Dynamite” will be Cecil B. De Mille’s first production under his new affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This will be a strictly modern story with a society background, returning the famous director to the sort of theme and atmosphere which made “Male and Female” and “Manslaughter” so successful. “Dynamite” is an original story by Jeanie MacPherson, who is now working with De Mille at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 15
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