STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 14

STRAND

“THE DOVE” TO-MORROW This evening will see the final presentation at the Strand Theatre of the latest big comedy by the inimitable Buster Keaton, “Steamboat Bill, Jnr.” To-morrow the Strand will present the latest screen success by the popular actress, Norma Talmadge, entitled “The Dove.” “The Dove” is a melodramatic story set in a renegade land, somewhere soutn of the equator, where death sends no warning, w'here women live for men and where men lead lives that are full. Such is Costa Koja, where a powerful caballero falls in love with an alluring dancer, where romance rides with head held high, and where one man’s word is law —until “The Dove” dances. Norma Talmadge proves herself a wonderfully talented actress as “The Dove?—fiery, flashing, enticing. Noah Beery gives an excellent portrayal as Don Yose Maria of Sandoval. In “The Dove” Roland plays a radically different part from anything he has attempted before —that of a young gambler who is hard as nails but square as the dice he operates for Charlie’s Gambling House in the mythical country of Costa Roja. The second big pictorial atti’action will be “40,000 miles with Lindberg,” a marvellous aerial tour through foreign lands with the great Atlantic air hero. The full supporting programme will include the Strand Magazine with the latest budget of the world's news and an Aesop cartoon. Eve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Orchestra will again provide the music.