STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 15

STRAND

“THE DOVE” THIS EVENING Norma Talma in “The Dove,” her first United Artists Picture, is to be the feature at the Strand Theatre this evening. Based on Willard Mack’s stage play, which ran for a year -on Broadway, “The Dove” is a melodramatic, romantic tale of Costa Roja, the “red coast.” Miss Talmadge is supported by Noah Beery and Gilbert Roland. "The Dove” is the colourful, quickaction narrative of a virtuous dance hall girl, a courageous young American employed in a gambling house, and “the bes' damn caballero in all Costa Koja,” Don Jose Maria y Sandoval. Against a background of guitars, stilletos, roulette wheels, fine ladies and grand gentlemen, the characterisation of Miss Talxnadge as Dolores, “The Dove,” a beautiful dancer, comes to glowing life, according" to advance reports. Directed by Roland West, who has previously made Norma Talmadge pictures, and supported by Noah Beery and Gilbert Roland, who were accorded considerable roles by * the star. Miss Talmadpe has a role of fire, tempestuous, loving - , defying and yielding in its several shades. The lilni is said to retain all of the colour which David Belasco put into the stage version of “The Dove." Roland West, the director, believes the story is even more suited to films, and that in “The Dove” Miss Talmadge achieves new heights in a part as different from her prior characterisation as that was from its predecessors. A well-rounded programme of supporting pictures will also be presented, including a great aerial picture, “Forty Thousand Miles with Lindberg.” A Strand Magazine and an Aesop Cartoon will also be shown, and a colourful stage prologue has been arranged with Miss Mary Cofield, soloist.