KING'S JUBILEE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 8

KING'S JUBILEE.

"STAR" SUPPLEMENT.

ISSUE OX SATURDAY

To mark the 2o years of the King's reign, the '"Auckland .Star" is publishing a special Royal Jubilee Supplement, which is to be issued in place of the ordinary supplement on Saturday. Many of the urinal supplement features will, however, be included in the special issue.

Though it is obviously impossible to deal in detail with the momentous changes of the reign, the supplement contains a resume of the developments which have taken place both in the Empire and the world at large, with particular emphasis on the part played by the King. It is profusely illustrated with photographs, which show the King from his boyhood uu'.il and after liis accession, showing also some of the important events of the 2.5 years, together with those whose part in them was huge. One interesting picture is that of the King and the former Emperor of Germany together on horseback. Another shows the present King and Queen as Prince and Princess of Wales with Kin-- Edward VII. These and other photographs will he of especial interest, since those who can remember clearly the accession of the King and the stirring incidents of his reign are man v.

The letterpress stresses not merely the part played by the King, but actually what the King stands for. During his reign the notion of Kingship and the conception of Km pile have changed, so that it is interesting to asssess what exactly His Majesty stands for in the most democratic of Empires. Emphasis has been laid on the affection accorded to His Majesty because of his personal character, and because of the way he identified himself with his people during the war. This is also (rue of the Queen and the Royal Family, whom the Kinpire and the world at large recogniso as standing for what is recognised to be typically English.

The personal story of Hie King is also told —his personal tastes, his personal habits, his journeys as Koyal equerry, and as a soldier with his armies in France in wartime. Other articles tell of the' Royal homes, tlie emergence of the Koyal House of Windsor, and how it is connected with the names of Wcttin, Guelph and Saxe-C'oburg-( lotha. Yet another reveals the number of Koyal dynasties which have passed away in recent times. The list is amazing. It is well at this time to realise th'*t while £o many thrones have crashed, that of the British Empire stands more securely thnn ever, "broad-based on the people's will."

SERVICE AT ST. MATTHEW'S

PROVISION FOR OVERFLOW. "There is expected to bo an overflow congregation at .St: .Matthew's Cliurcll iiext .Monday morning, when the King's Jubilee service will be held. '> It lias been decided t.i place loud speakers outside the church Tor the benefit of those unable to pain admission to the building.

" BENGAL LANCER."

GARY COOPER FOR ST. JAMES'. Of Hollywood's sensationally popular film version of Major Francis YeatsBrown's novel, "The Lives of u Bengal Lancer," an Australian reviewer wrote: — "Here yon have the newer method of making a talkie from a book; yon take the spirit—if yon are brilliantly clever; yon people it with virile people, who must hold the attention; yon give it the splendid backgrounds which belong to the original story; and you provide stirring incidents, in which the characters make entertainment.

"In the long time spent on making 'The Lives of a Bengal Lancer' Hollywood brought the details to perfection. The studio gave to Gary Cooper .the role of Macgregor, the hard-riding, hot-headed, soft-hearted Scottish-Canadian. It provided Sir Guy Standing with the best opportunity of his screen career, and it placed C. Aubrey Smith exactly where he would be most effective

"I'Yanchot Tone's part is the happiest of all. He is a player with a sense of comedy that is exceedingly rare, and his subaltern is a delicious- piece of work. People will say that Tone steals the picture from Cooper but Cooper's is the much more difficult task. Both men have a high sense of the honour it is to play these roles, for 'Lives of a Bengal Lancer/ in its four years of preparation, saw man}' fine players chosen and later discarded.

"That it should be so eminently successful after being so long in the making is remarkable. Apparently nothing but the best would satisfy the producers, and it is the best possible story of high endeavour, of adventure, of picturesque tentpegging and pig-sticking, of magnificent parades, of men who live on terms with death. Incidentally, 'The Lives of a Bengal Lancer' is the most generous tribute that America could pay to England. "It i>: a film of men, Kathleen Burke being the only representative of her sex, but it was made for women. It has colour and glitter. At the end it is a fearful wrench when you are parted from this company of gallant gentlemen.

"Colin Tapley the New Zealandei, by the way, gives an admirable performance, moving well, speaking beautifully itnd carrying his role with fine intelligence."