MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES IS NEW FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18046, 5 January 1927, Page 10

MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES IS NEW FILM.

( special to the “Star.”) LONDON, November 8 Many lung-heralded super films are appearing in the West End of London for the first time to-day, says the film critic of the "Daily Mail.” “Mademoiselle from Armentieres,” a polished and sincere British picture of hazard and romance in wartime, should draw the most attention, since it is almost the first of the 1926 crop of better and brighter British films to be seen by the public. The cleverest thing in the film, from a technical point of view, is the scene, viewed from an enemy aeroplane, in which a suave spy, inhabitant of mademoiselle's little village, is ploughing curious furrows in a field. All over Great Britain to-day the fine British war record, “Mons,” is being shown. Every man who acted in this, or who had to do with the production of it, saw war service in France. At the Tivoli, Strand, “Bcn-llur.” the vast spectacular American film which has taken more than three years and thousands of people to prepare, makes its tardy appearance. Marion Davies, looking particularly dapper disguised as' a Ruritanian prince, plays all sorts of pranks in “Beverly of Graustark,’ a corned v which is almost a farce in the Gallic manner, and quite amusing. The latest film from the hands of Rex Ingram comes to-day to the New Gallery, Regent Street, W., under the title, “Mare Nostrum.” Submarines, deep seas, and woman's wiles are introduced effectively into this vigorously conceived adaptation from the novel by Ibanez. "Beau Geste” continues at the Plaza, Piccadilly, where it packed the house every day last week. And a particularly commendable general release is “His People,” an intimate study of Jewish life that is well contrived and linqjjr acted melodrama.