TUDOR, REMUERA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 15

TUDOR, REMUERA

“THE DEVIL DANCER” “The Devil Dancer,” a story of Tibet, starring Gilda Gray, will bo shown at the Tudor Theatre, Remuera, this evening. The plot of “The Devil Dancer” concerns an orphan white baby brought up by the Black Lamas of Tibet to be a sacred temple dancer, her escape with an English explorer, her misunderstanding of and flight from him, her dancing in a natuch house and her final reunion with Stephen after a series of exciting events concerned with the vengeance sought by emissaries of the Grand Lama. “The Sunset Legion,” starring Fred Thomson, is the second feature. A MONOCLED VILLAIN Americans do not wear monocles, brL in countries where people do wear them they must be screwed into the face just so, or the effect is lost. Ulrich Haupt, chosen by John Barrymore to portray an aristocratic villain in “Tempest,” showed Hollywood the last word in monocle-wearing while he was working in that picture. Not only is ITaupt’s eye-glass the largest ever introduced in the picture capital, it is also peculiarly tinted and gives an uncanny sensation to the people who meet him for the first tune. Even in the revolutionary scenes, when Haupt. as a cynical, domineering army officer, is thrown from high estate and given over to the mercies of the bloodthirsty mob, the monocle remains in place. It is his final gesture of caste.