ROYAL SHOWS “THE WHIP”
A neatly-wrought melodramatic plot, an exceptionally capable and wellchosen cast, and all the thrills w’hich made the old-time play famous, combine to make “The Whip,” now at the Royal Theatre, Kingsland. Based on the old Drury Lane melodrama first produced almost a century ago, “The Whip” is brought up to date in settings and dress, and its multitudinous thrills are magnified by modern technical skill and photography. Dorothy MacKaill brings her beauty and charm to the leading feminine role and Ralph Forbes proves an excellent foil in the masculine lead. Anna Q. Nilsson is particularly striking as the beautiful and scheming “vamp” and Lowell Sherman contributes another of his delightfully villainous “heavy” characterisations. The film, “Hour of Fear,” heads the entertaining supporting programme
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 14
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127ROYAL SHOWS “THE WHIP” Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 14
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