AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

♦- ! CRYSTAL PALACE. ./'The Volley of the Giants," Peter B. Kyne's popular novel, has been filmed, and the picture is drawing capacity houses to . the Crystal Palace nightly. The hoautJul Keiiwooa country of Cal.forliia. is- the locate of the story, which shows 1 lifa' m. an atmosphere where only strong men aia wanted and wUero the puny are useless. Hilton Sills and his company spent ma,ny months,-in forest, lumber camps, and mills [leaking scenes for the film, which is of the ■ . spectacular type. The picture pro- . v;dea all the action , that can be desired by the most ardent fan, and one of the most IbriUing scenes is that in which a lumber -train ' leaps -over a mountainside, tearing ayray from the engine and dropping sixty feet into a river. -There are other scenes which . compel admiration, and altogether the film : ii one that can be recommended to all who likfi a'gtiDping theme with an outdoor set* * tiifi. j.'East of Broadway," the supporting film, , * milfit bo regarded as one of the -finest -of . • its 'kind seen in Christchurch for months •. .past.- Pull of: dramatic interest, it depicts ;4>; the efforts of a young man to join the New York police force. -'' ' '/i . . .