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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 7

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There can be no return of the Don rossack Choir, after leaving Australasia. The choir is booked up for the next ten years in various parts of the world, and had not Mr E. J. Carroll engaged the choir for this year. New Zealand would have had to wait that time before hearing it. The cost of transporting the choir from • Europe and back will be tremendous, and will cost over £IU.OOO. There are thirty-six singers in the choir, all ex-Cossack officers, who fought on the Russian front during the Great War. and have all been wounded. They are all cultured men, speaking French, German, and in many cases Asiatic tongues. They wear their picturesque uniforms wherever thev go. The Don River district of Russia from which these « ogsacks come, is noted for fine voices. It is the district from which the famous Synodal Choir of Moscow draws its singers. This choir ranks in the orthodox church in a similar capacity as the Sistine Choir of the Vatican. The Christchurch season will open on luly 2. « k Discussing “ Zeebrugge.” the British War picture recently released in the’ North Island and shortly to be shown here, a critic writes:—Discussing this picture a critic writes: —“ We are apt here, a critic writes:—“ We are apt at times to think of Drake and his legalised pirates as being wonderful heroes when we read of their hand-to-hand battles with the enemy, their glowing deeds, and their thrilling escapes. Wc have a parallel to this naval hero of "!d. and where he singe.d the beard «>f the King of Spain, Sir Roger Keys on the night of St George's Day, 1918. singed the pointed ends of the Kaiser's moustache, he having no beard to singe. No hero of old took such risks as this intrepid band of 2000 hardheaded devil-may-care volunteers who went in on that memorable night in the face of every known projectile in the war, with tons of metal being fired at them from every direction, blocked up the viaduct*, stormed the mole, and sunk the cement-laden ships at the mouth of the Bruges Canal, and so bottled up the Hun submarines for the duration of the war. This is one of the most glowing exploits in the history of the war, and Sir Roger Keys and his merry band of die-hards must have felt a wonderful glow of -atisfaction as they steamed away in the mists to Dover, knowing that they had obeyed orders, and that the canal was bottled up “ship-shape and Bristol fashion.” A wonderful picture of this exploit has been made correct in every detail from Admiralty records, and a picture that will make every Britisher feel proud that he belongs to the British nation. S K « The first of the Peter B. Kyne stories, adapted by Fox Films for screen use, is Golden Strain.’’ taken Irom the magazine story “ Thoroughbreds.” and concerns a lonely cavalry outpost and the lives of the people living there In those days of danger, rourage and daring were the qualities most admired in a man. and it was upon these qualities that his life often rested In one family were two brothers, the one a brave and daring voung soldier, the other a young man who had not been proved, but who was called a coward- But it was during the time of grave danger that the / golden strain" of courage asserted itself, and the stigma of coward was lifted once and for all. Madge Bellamv and Kenneth Harlan have the chief roles in this picture. i-: » A year or so ago. a bov of twentyone had a novel published, which raused a considerable sensation in America The book was called “The Wife of a t entaur." and the author's name wa> ril Hume. Now’ comes the screen version, with Eleanor Boardman. Afleen Pringle and John Gilbert as leading players. Instead of a

familiar film plot, the story is based on the theory that every man is a "centaur,’’ that he is half-beast and half-man, and that there is a continual strv ; — 1 - between the two. One of the strangest and most mysterious cafes in the Montmartre section of Paris was reproduced in its entirety for Mae Murray’s latest picture. “ The Masked Bride.” This is the “ Casa Diablo,” to which tourists can gain admittance only through influence and where strange and daring dances are seen. The nicture is produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Maver. and in it Miss Murray wears gorgeous and daring costum'” Francis X. Bushman is leading man. " The Wanderer " will be released in New Zealand in a few months’ time. The following is an extract from the " Philadelphia r> --*’“ The director's handling of the -icture in showing the'bacchanalian revels in the gorgeous palace of Tisha, the destruction of the wicked cit - of idolaters, and the fleeing terror-stricken crowds as massive walls fall, and rain and fire beat, down upon their heads, is masterful”: ' -