GERMAN FILMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19999, 17 January 1927, Page 10

GERMAN FILMS.

SCREENING IN NEW ZEALAND. GRADUAL INTRODUCTION. (Special to Dailx Times.) AUCKLAND, January 15. The most interesting event in Auckland kinema circles this year is Ikie y to be the presentation at a palatial Queen street theatre of a series of German turns. The list will include several of the most notable productions of the U.F.A. studios at Berlin which is owned by the largest kinema combination in Europe, and will be headed by “Variety,” acclaimed throughout Europe and America to be the finest photoplay ever made. The public presentation in New Zealand of German films may be said to be a new departure in the of picture theatres, for, although good pictures have been made in Germany for the _ past fave years, nobody has had the tementv to import them in face of an unfavourable public opinion. Last year, however, it was felt that the decline of anti-German sentiment warranted the importation of a xow trial films with the result that two German pictures were shown at Auckland theatres daring September. They were “Destiny and “Her Dancing Partner.” two average films whose country of origin was camouflaged somewhat transparently under the label “continental.”