STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 766, 12 September 1929, Page 17

STRAND

“THE BLACK WATCH” In “The Black Watch” Victor McLaglen is Captain King, of that famous regiment, the 42nd Highlanders, sent on a secret mission to Peshawur—on the Indian frontier, a place of bazaars, natives, vague shadows, camel trains, fakirs, beggars, etc. “The Black Watch,” now attracting record-breaking audiences at the Strand, is the supreme effort of John Ford’s long and successful career as a motion picture director, a career that evolved such masterpieces as “Four Sons,” “Mother Machree,” “Napoleon’s Barber.” “Hangman’s House” and “The Iron Horse.” Myrna Loy plays the leading feminine role, that of an exotic mystery woman, a she-devil with whom many men had matched wits and lost. The supporting company includes such well-known players as Lumsden Hare, Roy D’Arcy, Mitchell Lewis, Cyril Chadwick and Walter Long. There is also some very successful singing, a prayer song sung by Joseph Diskay tho tenor, and some other charming things by David Percy, the young baritone. Last, but not least, there is a glorious bagpipe band. The talking and singing features which make up the remainder of the programme include an all-talking comedy, “His First Lesson,” a new Fox Movietone News, a Pox Variety Travelogue, and songs and dances by Randolph’s Royal Hawaiians.