RIALTO, AND REGENT, EPSOM
“THE LAST COMMAND” * “The Last Command.” a tense drama starring the noted actor, Emil Jannings, is now at the Rialto and Regent (Epsom) Theatres. The settings of the play are Hollywood, 1928, and Russia, 1917. A general of the Russian Imperial Army has been hounded from his country and drifts to Hollywood, where Russians are being employed for work on a big production dealing with the Russian revolution. The preparations and bustle remind him of the past, and he travels in memory back to the red days. He sees the face of a girl, a rebel maid for whom he cherishes a deep affection. At the time of his degradation and at the climax of the horror that followed, she had gone out of his life, leaving him a broken wanderer. Awakened from his reverie, the old man takes his place among the picture extras. By the irony of Fate he is called on to enact the part of a Russian general at the head of his forces — to mock the personality of the man he had been. The film director —his superior—is the man who was his bitterest enemy; the colleague of the girl he had loved.* 9
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 15
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203RIALTO, AND REGENT, EPSOM Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 15
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