“HIGH TREASON” AT LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 16

“HIGH TREASON” AT LONDON

The Gaumont-British film “High Treason,” based on a play by Pemberton Billing, and directed by Maurice Elvey, is now in its third week at the London Theatre. It is interesting, and will create interest, though more for what it does than for the way in which it does it. You may pick holes in the story, but it intrigues by its forecast of the future. And technically it is excellent.

According to this film, by 3 940 television is perfected. Broadcasting is the only method of publicity. There has been a complete reform of dress, the women adopting a garb of plus fours and overalls for work, with divided skirts and knee breeches, of bizarre design, for evening wear, and the men soft silk shirts and opera cloaks. The style of decoration has been revolutionised. We have jazz by machinery without instrumentalists, and a new waltz has been invented. London shows double-decked streets, a new Charing Cross Bridge, and buildings with flat roofs, from which airships and helicopters rise and fall. The Channel Tunnel is completed, and its wreckage is one of the threatening “incidents.” The next attraction at the London Theatre will be “The American Prisoner.” a colourful period romance based on Eden Phillpotts’s famous novel. Carl Brison has a leading role in this splendid talkie.