GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 14

GRAND AND LYRIC

“THE VEILED WOMAN” One of the most impressive and realistic trial scenes ever produced for the screen is that shown in “The Veiled Woman,” the Pox film now at the Grand and Lyric Theatres. The locale of the story is Paris, and the prisoner, the hero of the story, is charged with manslaughter. The trial takes place in the Assizes of the Seine. That famous courtroom, in which so many notable trials have been held, was reproduced to the most minute detail. It makes a gorgeous scene, this great chamber in dark panelled wood, with the decorations of carved heads of lions, the great gilt clock on the wall, the uniforms of the court attendants, the robes of the opposing counsel, the grim judges in their gowns and caps and, in the background, the audience of fashionable women, all in favour of the acquittal of the handsome prisoner. The second big attraction at both theatres is the silent version of Vilma Banky’s fine romance, “The Awakening.” Walter Byron and Louis Wolheim also appear in this tale of rural Alsace before the war. A NEW SCREEN “TEAM” Usually when a man and woman appear in several pictures and are classed as a “team,” the man marries the girl in the last reel. Not so for the latest team of the screen. William Haines and Josephine Dunn, who played together in “A Man’s Man,” following their initial success in “Excess Baggage.” have not yet closed a picture with an engagement. They have been married at the start of the picture in both cases—and their married life forms the comedy in the story. In the new picture, adopted from Patrick Kearney’s stage hit, Haines plays a soda-jerker with a correspondence school complex, and his wife wants to get into the movies. In “Excess Baggage” they were married, and a vaudeville team. “A Man’s Man” was directed by James Cruze for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. “A WOMAN IN WHITE” British Dominions Films announce that they will shortly release “A Woman In White,” the film adaptation of the beautiful novel by Wilkie Collins. Blanche Sweet has the title role and has been praised as being ideally suited to the dual parts of Lady Laura Clyde and the mysterious woman in white. She is ably assisted by Frank Perfitt as Count Fosco, and Cecil Humphreys as Sir 3*?rcival Clyde. Herbert Wilcox, the famous director of „ * he first feature length British talkie. “Black Waters,” has won added fame by the manner in which he has retained the elusive charm and mysterious atmosphere of the original story.