PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10483, 13 January 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

"UNSEEING EYES.”

Characterised as the most thrilling and picturesque photoplay woven around a story of life in and around tho. Canadian Rockies, ’’Unseeing Eyes,” a screen version of an Arthur Stringer story, will be finally presented at the Palace to-night. The story is an absorbing romance of a young aviator and a beautiful soe.ety girl who are trapped by a blizzard in the Canadian woods. Headed by Director E. H. Griffith and Lionel Barrymore and Seena Owen, who are feat,ured in the picture, the Cosmopolitan company making the production spent more than 12 weeks on location in the rugged country around Banff, Lake Louise and other sections of Canada. More than a week was devoted in Montreal to the filming of a mid-winter carnival. In making scenes in the vicinity of the Canadian Rockies the "Unseeing Eyes” company achieved several new records in photoplay making. For the first time in tho history of the motion picture industry aeroplanes play a predominating part in a film of tho great Canadian North-west, and, through the’r medium, the film is .sa d have the most picturesque scenes' of that snow-clad terrain ever filmed. Many of the most striking scenes were made around Castle Rock •in the Columbia Valley, hetween the Selkirk Ranee and the Canadian Rockies. Three huge pianos were utilised and they soared more than lO.ROfift. above sealevel. ing of the picture involved many dangers, as the hundreds of small valleys thereabouts have extremely strong air currents. In,filming these spectacular aerial scenes, the Cosmopolitan Corporation had three Curtiss planes