TEN THOUSAND PLAYERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 17

TEN THOUSAND PLAYERS

"Noah's Ark' ota,n 0 ta,n fe' Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. includes more than ten thousand characters. Sets covering more than a mile were used in the making—a period of three years. “Noah’s Ark," mighty in conception, Portrays life at the ends of the rainbow span of fifty centuries. The lovers, whose glamorous personalities survive the soul-stirring days of the World War, are transported back across the centuries, to the iniquitous days preceding the Flood. Warner Bros., in the reproduction of the Flood sequences, have excelled themselves in the tremendous and realistic effects of this Great Deluge—these, together with the ■synchronisation of all sounds, etc., makes "Noah’s Ark” the most spectacular production yet made.

TWO WEDDINGS IN FILM There are two picturesque weddings in John Barrymore’s new United Artists’ picture, "Eternal Love," soon on the screen here, and although the hero is the bridegroom in one of them, and the heroine the bride in the other, both of them are unhappy on their nuptial days. This is one of the situations of the strange mountain loves and hates as directed by the brillian Ernst Lubitsch, and presented with a supporting cast including Camilla Horn, Mona Rico, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth, Bodil Rosing, and Evelyn Selbie. Lily Damita, French actress, playing opposite Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, in "The Cock-eyed World," finds that working in motion pictures is as good as a liberal education. For instance, she is learning vigorous forms of English not found in text books just by listening to the marines in this picture.