“THE COSSACKS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 14

“THE COSSACKS”

JOHN GILBERT’S LATEST Women have done many things, especially on the screen, but it remained for Frances Marion to set a new record. The greatest man’s story of all time, perhaps, in pictures, “The Cossacks,” John Gilbert’s spectacular drama of Russia, was written by a woman. “The Cossacks” is a thundering drama of Russia, full of battles, sensational rides, thrilling adventures, all written frofn a man’s standpoint, for the love of a father and son is the primary theme —and a woman wrote it. Mr. Gilbert plays a swashbuckling Cossack soldier in a series of thrilling adventures during the warfare with the Turks, and Renee Adoree is the heroine. Sensational rides and battle scenes by a troop of Cossacks brought from Europe to appear in the play are among the sensational details. A complete Russian village was built and populated by several hundred Russians as a background for the photoplay.

Master Pictures has received word that Hobart Bosworth’s starring picture “After the Storm,” after its initial screening, received enthusiastic praise from both the public and exhibitors. “After the Storm” is a thrilling adventure story with the tang of the sea. and while it is not a sequel to “The Blood Ship,” it is a production equally strong in theme and picturesque in treatment. .