STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 15

STRAND

SECOND WEEK OF “THE DOVE” “The Dove” commences the second week of screening at the Strand Theatre this evening, and the many thousands of people who have seen it declare this picture to be Xornii Talmadge’s greatest screen triumph. Miss Talmadge is ideal in the role of Dolores, the graceful dancer of a cafe in Costa Roja. She is loved both by Johnny Powell, a young American employee in a neighbouring cafe and by a villainous Caballero, named Don Jose Maria Y. Sandoval. Gomez, a murderous cousin of Don Jose, goes to Charlie’s next night with instructions from Sandoval. lie gets into the dice game which Johnny operates for the house, and substitutes loaded dice lor the real ones. Johnny, suspecting that such luck is not accidental, changes the dice. Gomez has beep looking for something at which to be insulted, and reaches for his gun, but Johnny beats him to the draw. Sandoval comes into the place to find his cousin dead on the floor—where he expected to find Powell, but he realises that even so Johnny has played into hie hand. Despite his plea of self-defence and Dolores’s scathing denunciation of the frame-up, Johnny is taken off to gaol. In the now deserted gambling house Dolores and Billy, Johnny’s pal, who operates the roulette wheel, collect a purse with which to bribe the commandants and gain the boy's release. The commandante is bribable, but Sandoval obstructs the main idea by giving orders that young Powell shall escape—to be shot as he climbs the last wall. Dolores has a rendezvous with Johnny in the tower of an old fortress. Here she is surprised to find Sandoval and Downey—and aghast to learn from thorn what will happen to her sweetheart. In a frantic effort to save Johnny she agrees that she will send him away for ever provided he is given his freedom, and that she -will go with Sandoval to his hacienda. The programme at the Strand also includes a fine descriptive film of Lindbergh’s 40,000-mile flight, a cartoon and a gazette. Eve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Orchestra plays delightful incidental music and a beautiful stage prologue is presented, with Miss Mary Cofield as the soloist.