STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 15

STRAND

“WOMAN DISPUTED” TO MORROW Norma Talmadge plays the most daring role of her career in “The Woman Disputed,” an adaptation of the sensational stage success of the same title, which is coming to' the Strand Theatre to-morrow. The United Artists’ picture was directed by Henry King, veteran megaphone chief, whose string of successes includes Lillian Gish’s “The White Sister,” Richard Barthelmess’s “Tol’able David,” and the all-star feature “Stella Dallas.” Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd’s famous director, maker of “Girl Sliy” and “Safety Last,” was co-director with Mr. King. Miss Talmadge’s second vehicle for United Artists has its locale on the Austrian-Russian border before and during the World War. The earlier scenes reveal the star as a flashilygarbed girl, whose beauty makes her a conspicuous figure in the night life of an Austrian city. She is loved by two men, former friends, whom the war makes enemies as well as rivals. The supporting cast of “The Woman Disputed” is headed by Gilbert Roland, the leading man, who won his first big success with Miss Talmadge in “Camille,” and later again scored heavily opposite her in “The Dove.” Roland plays a dashing Austrian Army officer. Other well-known actors in the cast are Arnold Kent, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Michael Vavitch, Boris de Fas, and Gladys Brockwell. De Fas’s work in “Tempest.” the new John Barrymore picture, won him an important role in “The Woman Disputed.” He is a European brought to America by Barrymore.