GREY LYNN CINEMA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 960, 1 May 1930, Page 15

GREY LYNN CINEMA

“Tho Desert Song,” a talkie adaptation Ot: tho well-known musical play, is at tho Grey Lynn nCinema. The production is replete with music, songs, choruses, dances, and dialogues, in addition to effective natural colour scenes. The producers were fortunate in being able to select a cast of excellent singers, most of whom have had both stage and screen training. The principal role, that of the “Red Shadow,” is taken by John Boles, the noted tenor, while a lyric soprano of unusual talent, Carlotta King, plays the feminine lead. The story, which is set amid the deserts of French Morocco, concerns the efforts of a vouns and idealistic Frenchman to redress tho wrongs of the native tribesmen.

Wo have all known Ernest Torrence, Metro-G old wyn-Mayer player, as a dastardly villain meriting our sincere hatred because of his admirable performances. Now we learn that ho is an accomplished musician and has composed tho music for a song “What An Irishman Means By Maehree,” the words of which were written by one Father Donnelly. It will be sung by John McCormack, the celebrated Irish

G. A. Sil Vara, noted Viennese dramatist, recently signed by Metro-' Gold wyn - Mayer to write talking pictures, is also noted as one of the greatest contemporary writers on political subjects. His “English .Statesmen,” with descriptions of Lloyd George, ASQUith, Northcliffe, etc., has been translated into five languages, and is considered a standard work ot political letters.