WARTIME EPIC.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19056, 19 July 1927, Page 13

WARTIME EPIC.

•fBAT PRICE GLORY." JjJjttJlTPItE AT THE GRAND. yHKniil that any moving picture jn jjjSK to enthuses '. an. audience .that it JSHgfCrth into spontaneous applause, tf lttPj» tt*K»*ffltij the: case during tho «M&« <t "What' Price Glory?" at the fitsaS Theatea.' The picture-,has met with —fr aa aatimsistic reception that its seaM fcaf bean extended for a-further week. Thai Erjo» .Glon" jiSa great wartime •fie. Ja pacta it » fens* drama, in other fhMt, ttffiekiJS 'ftfflKljr, but through ,it it lot ft qjiri of f motional romance whioh *m» thai «na amidst the horrors of warfas, Ccyid is still >b!e to look after busitm **.mo*L The story hovers round the iaaft at tha people—two American raarbm, tod ft darning French girl who loves Urn bath. Is • lHtle French village, niftti (be K«nd of the German guns, Ca-p----tasfhft aigl his'men are quartered. Hero T"B fNtto'Chanaaine, a French lady, who liasfWT latipmalea his affections. Flagg »a* tor bare'sod Sergeant Quirt is sent *» mm aim. Both men are out-and-out fUkrfMS *ho have repeatedly come to S" I •Nrftoae girl in different parts in ft 4m have been stationed. Flagg is fli tofeal pnteasonal soldier, with a lover a awry pan «ad town, while Quirt is one ef Ik (ttiele, tedooing type who have no sapi whets wcaenkind are concerned. to* easels the aCeetiont of Charmaine Mwnajg Si tw»y ©n leave, and oh hia "■as tt» aarittt enmity between the two naa as Ja «, aaafenms mood. Flagg •whauy aetepb debit is a philosophical "IWi however, baring Quirt in undismi yuniofl, but the latter, seeing his »«»««» ap to the front line with every fwj of sot returning, insists on join- **■». and both go forward into battle * i« friend*, staunchly united in the ■»of abaaet certain death. Such in brief "»• wry round which Baoul Walsh has *■» m neat production. When the- guns «*» atim* fired their hut shots on the *«J« front in 1918 the -world was too 2J«n»rii» to derive any enjoyment from **■*■"'«>* hued on war in any ahape •LiF*" »"5. teeeat 'r a change has eotno "•» aM there has been quit* a large 2«« »artune dramas, comedies and to--3"? *»«* *he motion picture etudios. 2*2 &* Qht *" u h,liled M the *"**- fcMF «■■*. and it* reputation is main-

«fl*L ,l ? lk ,»*»« of war » brought to •Su?* " • <,u,, . F 6 ** fihtt < *»* *" re*tL - ■"? HB, Pw»» inmrauioniet picture £«*» the trench*, dtrrin* the Great fin. east;looks titer the gajpwU. CaptainFi»« Victor rjH"* it splendid. Hit rivS, Quirt, 'Po**r»yer In Edmund •?!■?■? 9* rauui * <Mfhw, Dol--1?* «"to«. Prior ■""■ H9*m tn a vocal prologue.