ST. JAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 17

ST. JAMES

"NOAH’S ARK” “Noah’s Ark,” the long heralded epic of the flood, with sequences both modern and ancient, and a cast of j over ten thousand, is thrilling large audiences at the St. James Theatre. Dolores Costello is starred with George O’Brien, and the cast includes Noali Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn Williams, Paul McAllister, Nigel de Brulier, Anders Randolf, Armani Kaliz, Myrna Loy, William V. Mong Malcolm Waite, Noble Johnson. Otto Hoffman and Joe Bonomo. The moving and tremendously human story was written by Darryl Francis Zanuck. Michael Curtiz, internationally famed as the director of huge spectacular pictures, was in charge of production. Warner Brothers and Vitaphone are triumphant. They have accomplished what no other producer has dared to attempt. See the world’s greatest picture. In “Noali’s Ark.” in which Dolores Costello has the starring role, she has a larger part than she has ever had before. In fact, in this colossal production she has done the greatest work of her career. First as an Alsatian girl, an entertainer in the c-anteens at the front during the Woi Jl War, and then in the Biblical sequences as Miriam, betrothed of Japheth, son of Noah, she rises so well to the occasion that her previous work is almost overshadowed. Her other pictures seem merely to have led up to this great event. The remainder of the programme at the St. James includes musical selections by the Revellers Quartet, an operatic solo by the great tenor Martinelli, and “A Question of Today,” a short and amusing sketch.