"FOUR FEATHERS."

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1929, Page 5

"FOUR FEATHERS."

Thenext great picture at tho Grand Opera House', commencing next Monday night, will be :"Tha Four Feathers," 'one or the great pictures of the year. Mcrlam Cooper and Ernest B. ' Schoedsack conceived a - picturo on tho same scald as their "Grass" and vciiang." They have succeeded well, too, for on their broad canvas they.have; shown not only spirited warfare as it was fought,ln tho jungle, but they have shown, too, a variety of auiraal life. Imagine a rainfall of what seems to bo hundreds of hippopotamuses, their huge bodies splashing down Into a stream of water over a lofty slide. Imagine, too, tho blzarro effect of hundreds of tear-crazed baboons scurrying from a brush fire across a swaying tropical bridge. Then for the big climax, there Is a battio between, tho British soldiers and tho Fusnsy.Wuzzics. Here are no bombs, no cscadrllles; of 'planes, no tanks, no smoko screens. Instead, there is a swunky march of tho redcoats, marching just as they did in Marlborough's day to what,seemed certain doom to tho skirlIng of tho bagpipes. Then theso warriors form their hollow square tho samo strategy that discomfited Marshal Ney at Waterloo, their commander proudly tells , them, and tho battle is on. Flinging'at them with zeal ot Islam aro the forces of tho Mahdli It Is tho romanticism of old-faslilohed war. Tlioso aro the high lights of this splendid film. Cooper and Schoeasack did their work , well, not only lo theso big scenes but .In i the quieter ones as woll— always tho'tesf of a good director—lv tho serenity of tho English countryside In tho horror of the Mahdi prison pit at Omdurman. In the thlrst-rldden garrison of Fort Khar, In the dirty little caravansary 'at gunkln. Blchard Arlen has dono hero tho flncst: playing of his seven-year career. The box plans open at .Tho Bristol next Friday morning.