MUNICIPAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 October 1927, Page 7

MUNICIPAL.

Saturday, Monday, Tuesday. October 22nd, 24th and 25th. “Whispering Wires” (Universal), starring Anita Stewart. The screen’s version of the famous stage play that you will vote as the year’s greatest laugh sensation. Second episode “The Silent Flyer” (Universal). Pleasing supports: Comedy, Educational Film, Gazette. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. October 26th, 27th and 28th. “What Price Glory” (Special Fox). It will live for ever. The screen’s most perfect, beautiful and marvellous production to date. It is beyond ns to describe it here.

Added attractions: Comedy, Gazette, Travelogue

i cult roles, most of them demanding acting of a dangerous character. Supporting Hiss Stewart are Edmund Burns and Frank Campeau, while a number of minor actors and actresses are seen in auxiliary parts, ♦ * ♦ * "WHAT PRICE GLORY." Starting on Wednesday at the MunicipalThe long-awaited film version of “What Price Glory”can be recorded as Fox’s greatest triumph, and one of the best pictures of the year. With the limitations of the stage set aside, with Raoul Walsh setting his camera to record the hates, passions and laughs of war, it surely an'd easily takes on such broad dimensions as to place it among the elect. None of the vitality of the stage play is lost in the transference- The film adheres to the original in all its essential details, and improves upon it in the scope and flavour of its atmosphere. The story builds with ever-increasing interest, furnishing excitement, thrills and laughter on the way. Indeed, laughter is the keynote of the production, that human rib-tickling merriment which brings a smile long after the picture itself has finished. The antics of the two privates, Kipor and Lipinsky, in giving the "Razzberry” to their superior officers, are screamingly funny, and every time this duo shows its face ,the audience knows they are due for another laugh. Then there are Capt. Flagg and Sergt. Quirt, deadly enemies for the love of Charmaine, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter. Their rivalry provides plenty of humour for the spectators, who, as per usual, see most of the game. Victor McLaglen, as Flagg, gives a lusty performance, a vivid “he-man portrayal of the year. Then Edmund Lowe, as the swaggering, slippery Sergt. Quirt, rises to great heights, and Delores Del Rio, a beautiful newcomer, makes Charmaine a very real person. Plan now open a‘t Pratt’s.