NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 14

NATIONAL

“HELL HARBOR TOMORROW” “Journey’s End” will conclude its season at the National Theatre this evening. This film of the famous play is made by a wholly English cast and should be seen by everyone who experienced the horrors of warfare. It is accompanied by a comedy, All Tails.” # . The new programme at the National Theatre tomorrow will be headed by “Hell Harbor,” starring Lupe Velez. It is as Anita Morgan, descendant of Sir Henry Morgan, the distinguished brigand, that Lupe Velez appears. Rida Johnson Young’s novel. “Out of the Night,” has been adapted by Mme. Fred de Gresac to the screen. The robust quality attributed to the heroine of ‘ The Cradle of the Beep,” is said to be found in the character played by Miss Velez, and the story is acted out in a village of cut-throat pirates, one-legged Johns, suave knifetossers, honky-tonk dancers and plain murderers. It is a tale of blood and thunder, beginning and ending with forthright killings. Chief among the unscrupulous gentry are Jean Hersholt and Gibson Gowland, the latter remembered chiefly by his performance in Ericli Von Stroheim’s “Greed.” John Holland has the role of a trader who is loved by the last of the Morgans. Made completely outside studio walls, “Hell Harbor” has convinced Mr. King, the director, that talking and sound pictures should .not be limited to the ordinary confines of the theatre. He believes that the distinct advantage that the motion picture possesses over the stage is its freedom of physical range and that this freedom should not now be inhibited merely because pictures have begun to talk. j