Astonishing Picture

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 21 October 1936, Page 9

Astonishing Picture

Till: most astonishing picture over *■ made in Blit a in, ‘ ‘ 'Pin* Bobber Symphony, ” h Ill'll shown n! t^ueen ’s I lull, London, left nn invited audience amused, baffled and exasperatml. Friedriidi Feher, the Czechoslovakian who lias coinliinoil the fund ions of producer. author, composer and director, has spent two years and .CSO.OOO on this amazing production. it is 12,000 ft. long, runs for over two hours, and is the oddest Idenil of fantastic humour, good music and laid slapstick one critic lias seen since the coming of talking films. Dr. Fell or \s idea was apparently to compose the music firsi and write the story to tit it. The result is that he finds it impossible to make small fills without wreaking the sound track. ti is tlie story of a bov and a robber band, charmingly plioiogra plied amid Alpine snows and directed with many felicitous touches. Among the number of effective performances in a highly stylised manner the critic mentioned only linns I'ohcr, llie director’s son, who was delightful as the small boy. TJlfi public seldom hears of the human and syinpathet ie qualities of ninny prominent slats. Il Was aider l)ii‘ recent denlli in Italy <>! an obscure maestro, Signor Mari fell Leonardo, t hai Hollywood learned that the maestro had been living for the past 111 years in comfort and ease, solely as .a re nil of John Itolc.,’ generosity. .Signor Leonardo ua.-> I lie one who lirsl encouraged Boles as a singer, and who helped him when money was scarce, ami Boles never forgot his friend. As n gift for Signor Leonardo's seventieth birthday, Ihe star presented him with money for a Dip to his birthplace in Ttnly,