MAJESTIC
“THE AWAKENING” ON FRIDAY
Machine—gun battles with gangsters, running fights over the roofs of a. city and other thrilling embellishments, mark Lon Chaney's latest starring vehicle, “While the City Sleeps," a. ‘vivid underworld romance, now at the lMajestic Theatre. 5 Chaney plays a police detective in the new play and is pitted against a. sinister underworld gang. These thrills form a. background for a pretty romance, with a love story between ‘the detective, Anita. Page and Carroll Nye.
Items by )[elodie Gaie, noted English harpist, shorter films and selections by Mr. VVhiteford—Waugh's Orchestra. completes the programme. The thrill of hard-riding Uhlans, the world—famous cavalry troops that were Germany’s pride before the War; comedy in quaint, rustic inns; twilight courting in sleepy country lanes; stern drama in a. shell—torn convent; a wild ride for liberty through a. storm of shrapnel and bullet. These are among the high spots of Vilma Banky’s first starring picture, “The Awakening," which comes to the Majestic on Friday as its first sound-synchronised produc—tion. '
Miss Banky appears as Marie, lovely, quiet. modest, whose virtues are the village boast. Into the ordered goodness of her life, a storm appears in the person of Captain the Count Karl von Hagan, with his troop of Uhlans on their spring manoeuvres. In the little Alsation hamlet, indignation mounts in the hearts of the peasants as they see Marie courted—and won-—by this philanderer Karl, whom they know is seeking only conquest. “The Awak—ening” tells of how their great romance almost grew to equally great tragedy, and of the advent of the war that brought them together. Samuel Goldwyn boasts of the fact tha. this 14—month search for a, story suitable for Miss Banky’s first star—ring picture was well rewarded in “The Awakening", Not only did he find the story, but from England, he brought back Walter Byron, a young Englishman and new to American pictures, as leading man to Miss Banky.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 741, 14 August 1929, Page 17
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320MAJESTIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 741, 14 August 1929, Page 17
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