STRAND THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE

Tho Strand Theatre lias the exclusive .Fcreenlng rights of the photographic record of (he landing of the Tasman aviators on Saturday at Trentham, and the lto.val Oak Hotel. This picture was taken during both tlie morning and the afternoon on Saturday, and M'reened at the Strand Theatre on the .same evening, which'must be something .ipiiro.iWiiug (he nature of a record. The photography is excellent and comprehensive. Comedy coupled with spectacular moments '■Kiyai Buster Kcaton a. picture that is delighting audiences. "College" is tho titlu of Keaton's latest laugh. When ho enters college, his sweetheart tells him he will have to become an athlete or she will never tolerate him. He fails In baseball and on the track, l.ut finally, through a twist ot fate, 1-hmdcrs Into a job r.s coxswain of tho university crew and surprises everybody, even himself, by making good. Ann Cornwall appears to advantage as Keatous sweetheart. An Our Gang comedy, an live s Ucvicw, a Pathe Gazette ami a Nature Interest picture, make U[> tHe supporting programme, and the Strand Orchestra adds to the merit of tho entertainment. As advertised, "College is only available for one week's screening at tho Strand Theatre, and.it will be followed, on I'rlday. by what is universally considered as tho finest sea picture of the year—"The Blood Ship." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considers the story itself to be the finest he has c™ ™ad ami the picture in the able hands of Hobart Bosworth, Richard Arlcn (of "W ngs" fame , and Jacqueline Logan, is nothing short of magnificent.