CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 5

CRYSTAL PALACE.

A wr.nderful evening's entertainment was provided for the capacity home at Crystal I'sace last night, when the all-talkie feature. •The Black Watch." was presented. The tecte interest with which the romantic and stirring »lory was followed indicated how irre»i*:ible was the appeal made t.i the eui»:ion» of the audience. The »kir! ol the bagpipe* *»• heard both in (he opening and the closing- scenes: their ir.apirmt *train* on the battlefields nf glanders wtri contra»ted with the weird music of the bill tribe* in the fa*luea*<;» «f Khyber l***s. The atory ia by Talbot Mundy. and it ha*ed largely on that writer's ■Kins, of the Khybar flifles," but whit lends greater intcreit to the screen veroion ia the way it i* blended with the earlier stages of the Great War. a phase that was subordinated in the novel to the romantic and sensational incidents relating to the quelling of the Holy War amongst the frontier tribesmen in the Khyber Pass region. Victor JkLaglen give* • magnificent interpretation of the leading role. Quite different from other representationa on «he screen are the battlefield incidents which are most convincing. "The Black Watch" make* iU appeal not only to Scotsmen but to all lovers of brave and gallant deed*. Tha supports are all of » high standard.