AT THE GRAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 15 (Supplement)

AT THE GRAND

TRUE INTERPRETATION “The Patriot,” Emil Jannings’ great Paramount production showing at the Grand Theatre is an unusual picture and it was produced in an unjsual way. The whole of the action of the story was filmed in its exact order jf happenings. Usually a motion picture is filmed in separate scenes, which do not necessarily follow on, one an-

other, but are arranged to suit the convenience o f “set” builders, players and studio executives. All of Emil Jannings’ pictures must, according to the ■tar’s contract, bo filmed in the order of the events of the story. Jannings W’ll

study and concentrate on his part for days, tnus build Ing up an atmosphere which proves invaluable in the true interpretation of the character he is playing. In the case of “The. Patriot,” in which he played the Mad Czar, Paul of Russia, he studied the character of that monarch as it was drawn by historians of the period with meticulous care. Jannings does not care to have the continuity of the part he is acting broken .and so has stipulated that each picture should be filmed in its correct order.