EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 15

EVERYBODY’S

“THE COSSACKS” Love and murder in the frozen wastes of Alaska is the theme of “The Grip of the Yukon,” now being shown at tho Every body’s Theatre. The story tells of Farrel O’Neil, who of the mysteries of the Yukon, who comes to town and pays for his grub and liquor with sacks of nuggets. Ho is surprised in his cabin by two lost prospectors named Colby MacDonald and Jack Elliott shortly after sending money to his daughter in the State* so that she might join him in tho spring. They fight and O’Neil is killed, w’hicli leaves the two partners in possession of the gold mine. They work the claim and when Sheila O’Neil arrives looking for her father they become infatuated over her, not knowing she is the daughter of the man they murdered. A capable cast lias been secured to interpret the main roles, including Francis X. Bushman, Neil Hamilton, and June Marlow. “Tho Cossacks,” the great story cf those fighting and hard drinking people, the Cossacks, will also be shown with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree i?i the leading roles. A LIVING FAN Walter Forde, the British screen comedian and movie director, believes in elaborate detail work in his sets. “The Silent House” is the first film of a series he is directing for Xettleford Company and includes many striking sets. A most unusual effect is acquired in one of the scenes in a Chines© house of a mandarin. A wonderful living fan, 12ft high and 24ft across, has been constructed and is composed of ivory and jewels, including six living girls—the pick of London’s beautiful revue girls—who aie strapped by jewelled bands to th 'ribs of the fan. This will be a British Dominions Films release for 1929.