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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 14

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“THE DONOVAN AFFAIR" Jack Holt rides a different sn~ , hobby in “The Donovan Affair" tv' Columbia all dialogue thriller coming to the Roxv tomorrow. Instead of seein- n"’ astride a horse, dashing acres* IT plains in pursuit of the dastardly w lain who is clutching the wiltine w ine in his arms, we see him in role of a detective confronted witv very baffling murder mvsterv * Jack Holt is the only “western star" who is enjoying the same populartoday, if not greater, than he did wh“wild west” pictures were all vogue. As soon as this type of -E* ture became extinct, so far as i'v’ public was concerned, delineators “western” roles were totally ecliDsec ' Columia Pictures, however re,;, nised the ability of Holt as a dranw' actor and created a new Holt pers/ality for the screen. He was in several productions, and his Tfo .' marked him as one of the outstatd--actors in pictures today. In “The Donovan Affair," in the . .. of Inspector Killian, Holt assumes characterisation he has never d OT before. In commenting on hi* naHolt expressed a great partiality f,'. detective yarns. “I played Inspector Killian as I him: brusque, opinionated, not al**;, right, but full of conffdence. Th-\ just what he would he. 1 got * rt. thrill out of the picture, because kalian is confronted with a reallv tow" situation—investigating a murder finds a second one committed und"his very nose—but in the dark." Tomorrow’s programme will *]_ include a number of all-talkie support, making in all a most interesting entetainment. First of all. there will i* a musical show entitled “The Snappv Coeds,” starring Nan Blackstor, Then, by special arrangement, and elusive to the Roxy, there will be pre. sented, with full sound accompanimeviews of the running of the latest Er lish Derby. Finally there will be a Pathe sound news, and audio rerier and “Screen Snapshots,” in which t: voices of famous stars are heard. “ANOTHER MILESTONE” PRAISE FOR “COQUETTE" A leading London reviewer writes as follows concernirg the premiere scret.v ing of “Coqifiitte”:—“What mak Mary Bickford as “Coquette” imiqi. and extraordinary is the smashing c' so many traditions with her presenttion of that highly emotional chap - ter. In discarding her curls foi the modern bob, and forsaking the whimscal Pollyanna, she has pictorially arc verbally, with great courage and determination, told her army of admirers that she has left her adolescent days behind, and is now an actress of er. .* tional roles. “There have been many famous or - since Mary climbed the pinnacle fame, but she has not been crowdf. from that high-vaulted place she he earned through years of considerate ■ of her public’s demands. “The vast crowd who waited pa j ently in the pouring rain outside ti J I theatre in London to see the premier | screening of “Coquette” were pay.’: I a tribute to Mary’s courage and deter- a mination. Mary may bob: Mary r. J grow up—but the Bickford aura re I mains the same—something haunliEr j wistful, something intensely human f behind those Bickford eyes that alwi;make her personality stand out ak her acting, above her vehicle. “ ‘Coquete’ is dynamic. The po* ' that it possesses emotionally earn be resisted. There are no talkies thefar that have been half so potent, at certainly not one so poignant. R another milestone, and a triumph ta favourite star.”