STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 556, 8 January 1929, Page 14

STRAND

“TEMPEST” ON FRIDAY The long run that has been enjoyed at the Strand Theatre by Harold Lloyd's latest comedy, “Speedy,” is now drawing to a close, and this big picture will only be screened for three more evenings. “Speedy” is without a doubt Harold Lloyd’s best. It shows him in the roie of a New York boy whose chief characteristic is the ability to lose his job speedily’. He is reformed, however, when he falls in love with Jane, whose father owns a horse tram that is gradually being pushed off the streets. Harold Lloyd’s efforts to revive the horse trams are the cause of much of the comedy, but his visit to the Coney Island Amusement Area provides many hearty laughs. George Fawcett, veteran portrayer of screen characters, is entering iiis second decade of motion picture work with what is considered the outstanding role of his career —an aristocratic old Russian general in John Barrymore’s new United Artists picture, “Tempest,” a forthcoming “special” to be shown at the .Strand Theatre next Friday. Fawcett, as the gruff, lovable father of tlie princess. Camilla Horn, with whom Barrymore, a peasant officer, falls in love, is only one of the many noted screen players appearing in support of the star. Miss Horn, a yoi.\European actress who was brought to America especially for “Tempest," has the chief feminine role, and Louis Wolheim, Ullrich Haupt, Boris de Fas Lena Malena and Albert Conti are others_ who figure prominently in the unfolding of the story woven around t omantic chapters of the Russian revolution. Barrymore’s first picture with a modern background in several years was directed by Sam Taylor. John W. Considine, jun., supervised “Tempest, said to be one of the costliest and most spectacular films in the history of the silent drama.