“THREE PASSIONS"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 14

“THREE PASSIONS"

REMARKABLE BACKGROUDS Rex Ingram stresses the mods: tendency of “futuristic” interior dean'ation in his latest production “I'so Three Passions,” coming to the Mustic Theatre on Friday. One! of the important sequences in this United Artists picture is a “filmistic" restaurant interior. Nam quite like this study in dazzle decontion and staggered lines of comtion has been seen on the me. before. VVith a jazz orchestn II which the performers are made up h resemble their surroundings, it'ia, with its strikingly novel camera anglsll big a triumph in its different was the shipyard. Lady Bellamont‘s boudoir, the livate apartments of an ultra-mom Woman of unlimited means. is also!!! refreshingly original screen pm!Europe must have been ransackel‘l' modernistic statuary and hanginll" make this room so striking a ramp! of the taste of tomorrow—perhaps of 1930: Lord Bollamont‘s office, with its interesting range of valuable w ships; the library, with its art M from Rex Ingram's unique private collection of rare books, statuary 11l furniture; the mission in the mm of London. in which the bamt effect is so well preserved—ell In worthy settings for Cosmo Hamiflfl’s irelnarkable story, so effectively ung- ‘ preted by the company headed by Alice jTerry. Shayle Gardner and Ivan PE!‘rovitclx.