“SMILE, BROTHER, SMILE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 15

“SMILE, BROTHER, SMILE”

AT* PRINCESS TO-MORROW

The idea of selecting some particular profession or episode in modern or remote civilisation upon which to base an epic o£ the screen is developing into a really worthwhile institution. Often, however, in the search for great themes producers are prone to overlook some of the lesser but nevertheless important subjects. It has remained for First National Pictures to produce a film which shall glorify the commercial traveller whose importance in the world of trade is something that cannot be gainsaid. Charles R. Rogers, once a travelling man himself, was given the task of pi'odueing the picture, “Smile, Brother, Smile,” for the company and John Francis Dillon was selected to direct. Heading the cast are Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill and the picture comes to the Princess Theatre shortly. Without an attempt to connect The work of the commercial traveller with any tremendous or epochial situation, a very delightful comedv-drama has been produced with a lot of heart interest and with scenes which portray the struggle that is often the lot of those who elect to sell the world’s goods in the great marts of barter and trade. Williams Boyd, Grace Darmond, Jimmie Adams, Kay Deslys, Fr&nk Reicher, Mikhael Vavitch, Robert Edeson and Junior Coghlan support Jetta Goudal in "Her Man o’ War,” a new war picture, which will also be shown at the Princess Theatre to-morrow. The picture is said to be thrilling, and to have many comic interludes.