'WHAT PRICE GLORY?'

Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 11

'WHAT PRICE GLORY?'

COMENCIHG KEXT WEEK The long-promised screen triumph, ‘What Price Glory?’ will commence at the Octagon and Empire 'theatres on Friday next. Every decade there appears on the theatrical horizon a screen presentation so power!ill in its appeal that it at once radiates tins appeal to the most remote cornels the world- As a play, ‘What Price Glory?’ proved a sensation, but as a screen production, the sensation takes on all the widespread interest of a masterpiece. 'the nation s loicmost screen critics have been unanimous ni their commendation of this motion picture masterpiece. It is proclaimed by those in authority as the greatest motion picture of the year. It is not a war picture, though war is its background... It is no more a war play than a love comedy laid in a sylvan setting would bo called a rural play. Its authors took war as the. canvas on which to sketch their story; war us the great influence on men and women that would bring aut pathos, comedy, and human appeal as no other crisis in the affairs of nations could bring. Above all else there is comedy. Probably no picture ever made along the edge of a 1 great world tragedy ever had so much comedy. ‘ What Price Glory?’ on the screen is.peopled with real and human characters that will at once win favor. They are not just types. They are the genuine thing in front of the camera, which ,makes no mistake. ‘'What Price Glory?’ is hot only a great and absorbing picture, with thrills and heart throbs and a world of comedy, but it is crowded with Incidents that bring a chuckle and a thrill to the most hardened, picture critic.