CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 990, 5 June 1930, Page 16

CIVIC

SUCCESS OF “SPLINTERS”

‘'Splinters” is the very spirit of the British Tommy shown in a. series of fragments of humour, pathos, song and dance by the famous concert party whose efforts made a little oasis of forgetfulness in a dreary world of mud, monotony and danger—fragments which helped to maintain the morals which won the war. The General commanding a certain division wished that “they could get something to amuse the men in the evenings. Couldn’t they organise some sort of a show —a concert party or something?” So “Splinters” was born and it lived to become the greatest of all wartime revues. This fact has kept it running continuously on the English stage for the past eleven years. The talkie version of “Splinters” had to do justice to its almost immortal original, and so the British Dominion Films Company obtained • Hal Jones and Reg. Stone for parts in the film, augmented the cast by adding Nelson Keys, Sydney Howard and Lew Lake to it, and placed the production in the hands of Mr. Herbert Wilcox, the most famous producer in England. “Splinters” has been released throughout Australasia by Greater Australasian Films and the season of this great picture at the Civic Theatre is now* drawing to a close. Full supports are also presented, including musical selections by Ted Henkel’s Orchestra and by Fred Scholl at the organ.