MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“FLAG LIEUTENANT” AGAIN ‘‘Paradise,” the dramatic story of life in London and on the French Riviera, starring Betty Balfour and Alexander D’Arcy, will be shown at the Majestic Theatre for the last time this evening. To-morrow evening tho Majestic will present the coloLirful picture, "The Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant.” It was, perhaps, “The Flag Lieutenant” that was responsible in no mean way for the recent establishment of British pictures, for it was without a doubt a remarkable story, with all the highest standards of entertainment values brought to such a degree of perfection that it was secured by the leading theatres of Australia and New Zealand, and exhibited for extended seasons. So wonderful was its reception by the public of Australia that British Dominions Films lost no time in securing its successor—“ The Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant” — for exhibition in Australia and New Zealand. This is a story that deals with the exploits of the Flag Lieutenant in China, where a sinister influence is undermining British prestige in the East. “The Flag Lieutenant” pits his wits against this power and wins through. A feature of the picture is the consummation of the Flag Lieutenant’s highest ideals that he left incomplete in the previous production. In this, though he loved the Admiral’s daughter, he did not marry her, and so end “The Flag Lieutenant” picture like any other production. But in his "Further Adventures,” the author. Colonel Drury, has met the wishes of the fans, and brings the Admiral’s daughter to China to marry her dashing naval hero, who is incidentally A.D.C. to her father. Here she is embroiled in the silent fight being waged between her lover and the sinister influence, and some suspenseful moments are a feature of the plot that will not fail to hold the audience enthralled from beginning to end. Finally, tlie Flag Lieutenant marries the girl of liis choice, whom the author so heartlessly left languishing in his first story, and the tale ends happily.