PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 625, 30 March 1929, Page 13

PRINCE EDWARD

“TALL TIMBER” “Tall Timber,” now showing- at the Prince Edward Theatre, tells a clean outdoor story, well directed by Dunstan Webb, with a powerful cast, headed by Billie Sim and Eden Lander - you, two young stars whose youth invests their work with romantic artistry. In the sun-shadowed verdance of the North Coast timber country, with its heights of virgin forest side by side with those naked hills where the tim-ber-cutter’s axe and saw make the countryside echo with the story of the eternal progress of man. the spirit of romance, as old as those hoary hills themselves is as active as the brightness of the city’s highway. It was in the little timber mill that sprawled y#ver the feet of the great mountain that Jack Maxwell, fresh from the gaieties of Sydney high life, found himself face to face with the inevitable truth of nature. It was here that he found sweet Betty Manning, the favourite of the mill, and it was here that he fought the greatest battle known to man, that of man against himself —and won. “The Crash,” which is the second feature, is a romantic railway story starring Milton Sills as the boss of a “wrecking crew.”