STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“THE MIGHTY” What many movie critics declared to be the most spectacular short scene ever made for a motion picture appears in George Bancroft’s latest all-talking feature, “The Mighty,” at the Strand Theatre. The scene, made at the intersection of Sixth and Spring Streets in downtown Los Angeles, shows the simultaneous robbery of three banks by machine-gun bandits and their subsequent routing by a squadron of 35 motor-cycle policemen—all regulars of the Los Angeles force. In “The Mighty” Bancroft plays the role of a returned war hero who is given the leadership of the police department of a crime-ridden city, the people not knowing that Bancroft formerly was a notorious gangster. He assembles his old gang to make a haul and then decides to go straight for the girl he loves. Warner Oland, Esther Ralston, O. P. Heggie, Raymond Hatton and Morgan Farley are also featured in the cast. The Strand’s fine programme also includes a new “Micky the Mouse” cartoon entitled “The Jazz Fool,” a Fox Movietone News, and operatic songs by Benjamino Gigli, the famous tenor. Forty trained horsemen, all of them singers, will be seen in the spectacular military review in “The Love Parade,” the talking screen’s first musical romance, coming to the Strand as the next attraction. The riders head an army of Royal Grenadiers as they march in parade past Jeanette MacDonald, the Queen Louise of this modern G-raustarkian extravaganza. “The Love Parade,” which was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, stars Maurice Chevalier. France’s favourite