STAR OF “THE SINGING FOOL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 14

STAR OF “THE SINGING FOOL”

AL JOLSON, the famous American vaudeville artist, whose singing of his world-famous songs, “Sonny Boy/’ “There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder” and “It All Depends on You,” is attracting crowded houses to the PLAZA Theatre. “The Singing Fool” is notable not only for its songs, but is also an outstanding film attraction, with a fine romantic story, capable cast and spectacular sets.

SUDANESE IN “FOUR FEATHERS’' Thousands of “Fuzzy Wuzzys” made famous bv Rudyard Kipling in his ! poem will be seen in many of the exj terior scenes of Paramount’s “The | Four Feathers,” which has been j adapted from the famous story of | British courage in the Sudan by A. j E. W. Mason. | Merian Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedj sack, the two explorers and film I makers who made the jungle pic- : ture “Chang,” spent many months [ among the fierce and warlike tribes of | the Red Sea hills, filming scenes for I the picture. # | Members of another famous tribe, now almost extinct, will also be seen ; in the picture. These are the sword ; hunters of the Hamrab tribe who live ! on the borders of Abyssinia. The sword i hunters have become almost extinct ' through their insane daring. Armed only with swords, they hunted and j slew the biggest and most ferocious j game. None of them lived to be old | men, and the Dervish War finished j those the game had not killed.