“ THE DEVIL DANCER ” DRAWS BIG CROWDS.
Amongst all the spectacular pictures shown at Crystal Palace, “The Devil Dancer” holds high rank. For the first time, the movies have gone for setting and theme to that mysterious and wonderful land, Tibet, shut out from Western civilisation by the great Himalayas. Miss Gilda Gray is worth seeing for her dancing alone. In this picture, it is claimed, she gives a devil dance identical wijh dances performed in Tibetan temples for ages. Be this as it may, they are very effective. They have a peculiar attraction, conveying a sense of strangeness and of mystery, combined with an expression of primitive ideas. Apart from this important desideratum. Miss Gray has natural talents as an actress, and these, evidently, she has trained and cultivated to a high degree. Miss Muriel Wilton, of Wellington, produces a prologue of stage dances similar to the religious and symbolic dances in the picture. Mr A J. Bunz has arranged a particularly interesting and instructive programme for the Symphony Orchestra.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18576, 26 September 1928, Page 7
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