STAGE AND SCREEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 June 1927, Page 13

STAGE AND SCREEN

“Oh! Earnest!” .seems to be the title of the song and dance version of Oscar Wilde’s play, ‘‘The Importance of Doing Earnest,” now running as a musical comedy in New York.

‘‘Rose Marie” is now being staged in Paris. It has met with a wonderful reception in the French capital, and the work of Miss June Roberts, the Australian dancer, is said to be exceptionally fine.

In the matter of output, Mr Edgar Wallace is the most remarkable writer of the times. His new play, “Double Dan,” an amusing “crook” farce, opened at the Savoy Theatre recently.

An historical film of the early sea. fleet, “Old Ironsides,” is to be shown in New Zealand. It has been directed by James Cruze, and contains some fine acting by Wallace Heery. Vivid glimpses of sea battles against Mediterranean pirates are interwoven with flashes of humour provided by Beery as bos’un of a windjammer and' George Bancroft as a shanghaied gunner.

Peter B Ivyne is to write original stories to be adapted for Tim McCoy’s forthcoming pictures. The first is netitled “War Paint,” and has already been produced. It bears the stamp of reality, and gives aai entirely new conception of Indian life and customs.

An entirely Britisli picture, “The Flag Lieutenant,” was seen recently by the King and Queen. It is said to be an extremely light-hearted film of piece-time naval adventure. Mr Henry Edivardes makes a. very pleasing hero.

Two sisters, entirely opposite in character, are the central figures in

“Love ’Em and Leave ’Em” a comedydrama. The picture is said to afford the leading ladies.

A vivid glimpse of the life of an official in a remote British outpost is provided in “Palaver,” an unusual and sincere little Britisli film released in London recently. The story is an unpretentious one of loyalties treacheries, and sentiment in Nigeria. The native actors, who play in it, provide some intimate peeps into the life of an African tribe and take part in the fight at the climax of the plot, with inborn dramatic feeling.

“War Paint” is an authentic picture •of the Red Indians and the West. It was produced on the Wyoming Reservation and features many hundreds of Indians in graphic sequences. These were induced to appear through their friendship for McCoy, who shares with the Crown Prince of Sweden the distniction of being one of the few white men to be adopted into an Indian tribe.

A fight film that is reputed to have all the’ punch of the real thing, plus the well-known Dix brand of humour, is “Knockout Reilly.” Adapted from a story by Albert Pason Terhnne, “Knockout Reilly” stars Dix as a young steel puddler, who after vicissitudes attains to a pugilistic champion-' ship. Mary Brian and Jack Renault are featured. The film is said to be as exciting as that classic of all Dix pictures, “The Quarter-hack.”

“London,” a forthcoming picture, will appeal to all classes. It has a popular star, a human rags-to-riches story and the lure of real romantic film adventure in hands across the sea. The seen&s are the real thing—not studio sets. The story was written especially for Dorothy Gish by Thomas Burke—author of “Limehouse Nights” —who knows the thrilling vein of human drama that pulses through the slums and palaces better than any other man.

Yet another iwoHd-famous pianist, Friedman, is shortly to tour New Zealand. opening in Auckland on July Hi. With bis advent, New Zealand will have heard three of the greatest pianists in the world within a year. Backhaus has played here, and Paderewski will precede Friedman by a few days.

Another matrimonial venture has been arranged by two people who today loom large in the film world. Miss Yilma. Hanky, dainty screen beauty, has announced her engagement to Rod La Hocque. Yilmp Hanky was the heroine in the last of Rudolph Valentino’s productions, “The Son of The Shiek,” and co-starred with Ronald Column in United Artists’ new picture, “The Night of Love.” Rod La Rocque is leading light in “Resurrection,” the screen version of Count Tolstoy's dramatic masterpiece, which was recently .completed at the same studios. He is well remembered all over the world for his work in “The Ten Commandments.”

“Sunny” is the story of a little cir•us rider who becomes a stowaway aboard the Triumphant. By the captain she is married to Jim Deering. !3ut she is in love with another —Tom Warren. Spectacular scenes include lie boat, the circus-tent at Southampton. and the Majectie Hotel, Florida. 3ong hits are “Who?” “I’ve Looked for Trouble,” “Do You Love Me?,” ’Two Little Bluebirds,” “I Might Low Fond of You,” and “Sunshine.”