PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 849, 18 December 1929, Page 18

PLAZA

“THE FOUR FEATHERS” The locale of “The Four Feathers,” the mighty Paramount attraction at the Plaza Theatre, moves from the flower-set nted lanes of old England to the acrid heat of the African desert and back to England. When Kipling wrote, “So, ’ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your ’ome in the Sudan —you’re a pore benighted ’eathen, but a first-class fighting man,” he made the Fuzzy Wuzzy and the British square and the Sudan famous apart from the glory of their own merits. The only time a British square had been broken was by these wild savages of the Sudan desert, yet Napoleon had thrown his best cavalry against such a square in vain. In one scene in “The Four Feathers,” a British column is moving to the skirl of bagpipes to the relief of a British fort in the Sudan. Suddenly from one of the surrounding hills the shrill cries of the Sudanese strike the ears of the soldiers. A hasty order, and the famed British square is formed, a solid phalanx of men and bayonets agai:-ist the like of which Napoleon’s men had failed. The supporting talkie items include a gazette in sound, a comedy, a talking and singing scena, “Hawaiian Nights,” and a particularly amusing sketch, with songs by Elsie Janis, the London New York musical comedy star.