MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 765, 11 September 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“IRON MASK” ON FRIDAY

Emil Jannings, the world's famous j character screen actor, is heard sing-, ing ail operatic song number in German in the Paramount sound picture, “{Sins of the leathers,which will be shown for two more days at the INlajestic Theatre. “Sins of the Fathers” tells a story of deep human- interest*, it centres around a German-American waiter and bartender, who becomes a fabulously wealthy bootlegger, only to have his life crash around his shoulders, bringing him in the end back to his original status. Kutli Chatterton, noted stage actress, and Barry Norton, well-known juvenile, are also in the cast. In his newest United Artists picture, “Tho Iron Mask,” which is coming to the Majestic Theatre on Friday. Douglas Fairbanks has surrounded himself with a company of actors who represent tho aristocracy of the stage and screen. Mr. Fairbanks, personally, selected each player because of trueness to type and character. Dumas, himself, could not have chosen a more perfect impersonator of his seventeenth century hero than Mr. Fairbanks. Doug does not merely play D’Artagnan, tho valiant musketeer. He is D’Artagnan, come to life after 300 years, in all the vividness of his gay, adventurous spirit. D’Artagnan is Mr. Fairbanks’s favourite of all the romantic heroes he has played in his long screen career. After making “The Three Musketeers” six years ago, he now realises his wish* to continue the adventures of the daring musketeers. In selecting the men to play his three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Mr. Fairbanks chose actors of as widely different characteristics and personalities as those of tho three friends whom they so perfectly portray. Leon Bary, who plays the dignified, intelligent, valorous Athos, is one of the most distinguished actors _ of the French stage and screen. To the role of the amorous, religious Aramis, Gino Corrado brings the fire and intensity of his Italian ancestry. Stanley J. Sandford, veteran comedian, invests Porthos with all the swaggering buffoonery Dumas gave him. Nigel de Brulier, as the brilliant. ! sinister Richelieu, might have stepped j from one of the old French history | books. His aquiline features and piercing eyes interpret the very spirit ; of the inscrutible Cardinal who ruled j the destinies of 17th century France, j Lon Poff is his faithful henchman, ! Father Joseph, Ulrich Haupt, brings to the part of de Rochefort, the wily ! nobleman who plotted against both ‘ his king and the cardinal, all the j subtlety and finesse which that arch j conspirator possessed. Edmund Lowo will play the leading j masculine role opposite Billie Dove in her next First National Vitaphone star- j ring picture, “The Broadway Hostess.” j