GERMAN FILMS.
SCREENING IN NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND, January 15. The most interesting event in Auckland kinema circles this year is Ikiely to be the presentation at- a palatial Queen street theatre of a* series of German films. The list will include several of the most notable productions of the U.F.A. studiosat 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 policy, of picture theatres, for/ although good pictures have been made in Germany for the past five years, nobody has had 1 the temerity, 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 few trial films, with the - result that two German pictures were shown at Auckland theatres during September. . They were “Destiny” and “Her Dancing Partner,” two average films whose country of origin -was camouflaged somewhat transparently under the label “continental.” 7
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Otago Witness, Issue 3801, 18 January 1927, Page 32
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190GERMAN FILMS. Otago Witness, Issue 3801, 18 January 1927, Page 32
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