The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 16

The Show's The Thing

nVERMUCH praise from our energetic movie-producers has rather apoilecj our first fine careless rapture as regards the actual productions; the . reality is so often short of the advertisement. But if ever a film deserved honorable mention, it is "Lost m the Arctic," a Fox travelogue shortly to be released m New' Zealand. The film tells. the true, story of. a tragic search for the remains of a small party of men from the.Stefansson expedition <of 1913, cut off from their comrades and lost when their vessel was crushed by .icebergs. A feat of which any Polar explorer might be proud was. the belated quest of the . little American ship which set off, with camera aboard, . into a wilderness where. Polar bears were the only sociable inhabitants. Talking of Polar bears, a really wonderful" episode screened is the lassooing of one large and uncertain-tem-pered gentry. How the search, was at last rewarded by discovery of the bones of those sought— how "Old Glory" was left floating high over a lonely cairn, and how the ship pushed off from the iceworld into clearer seas are episodes which "the '•picture I 'unfolds. #*' . * FRANK MERRILL, wears a leopardskin m "Tarzan the Mighty,", a Universal film which is shortly expected to set young New Zealand swinging from tree to tree; larger elephants, toothier tigers, and all the jungle paraphernalia which, m the original Tarzan film, made our dyspeptic old dears wish they were all alone with somebody or other m the great African jungle; •** . » "LJIT THE DECK" is a song-and-dance combination m which Annie Croft flits about from Plymouth ?to Chinese, seaports. Annie hails from' London and has one or two hefty hits there to her ci-edit, so if she and the play both live up to their press-agent reputations, there will be no need for New Zealand to assume its Queen Victoria look and murmur: "We are not amused."

nALB AUSTIN, who lias left Wellington theatres for fresh fields, made i a better job o£ her role m "The Bush Cinderella" than most folk expected, j At moments, she had a wistful sim- ! plicity that went clown rather well, if taken m small draughts; her screen ; lover looked frightfully energetic wlien dashing about m motor launches and | things after his kidnapped bride, • but I on the whole the picture deserves honorable mention. * * * TLINOR GLYN'S getting naughtier and naughtier. From f'Three Weeks" she has descended to "Thre6 Week-Ends." 1 Neil Hamilton, ,■ one of the screen's most twinkling-eyed J juniors, takes the lead, ' and little Clara Bow holds the. leading; strings. If the censor lets .us, we'll ;heaiv all ; about it soon. * . # #.. MILTON SILLS and Dorothy Mackaill play together m "The Barker." We like Milton when he. forgets- about that strong, silent jaw of his; and ' Dorothy, when she omits to wave her hair. is a blonde and piquant English youngster, with far more real power of expression than most of the Hollywood heavyweights.. . i ■ . #■ # ' - " # "TYRUM.S" OF LOVE" are a big noise. Mary Philbin looking as helpless as can be expected of any girl drawing down her salarj-, Lionel Barrymore as the husband (faithful for once) , Tully Marshall crawling around as the villain, and Don Alvarado (who is a new one on us) ticketed as "her gigantic lover."