A BRITISH PICTURE "THE RING" PLEASES GAIETY AUDIENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 68, 22 April 1929, Page 2

A BRITISH PICTURE "THE RING" PLEASES GAIETY AUDIENCE.

There was a buxnper liouse at the popular Gaiety de Luxe Theatre 011 Saturday evening, wlien an especially fine series of fihns coimtituted the pro- [ gramme for the usual week-end | cliange of iare. The bill was note- 1 wortliy for the fact tliat the niain film. ; entitled "The Ring," was a British production and it is snfe to say ihat j British lilms can hold tlieir own with | Anierican presontations if this is a j fair crilerion of wlmt Hritis-li klms ' are. "The Ring,'' which is a new : (ilnx dirccted by Mr Aliicd nitclicock, ; is a success in evorv way. That is to j say, it succecds in the very rnre ac- | eomplishment of lieing the imrest film . art and a line popular entertainment at tlie same time. l.ike all other good moving picture dramas, the t film has the simplest of stones, ) Tlie girl who sells ticlcets at a ; hoxing booih in a travelling iair , marries her pugili^t-sweetlioart. hut , later allows a real chaiTipion out^ule j her set to pay attentions to licr. Ihe j ritt widens until. in a great match at j the Alhert Hall, the liiisTThnd is Iosing in his light for his wite with tlie (hani- ; pion. wlien the girl. movcd to repent- | ance, comes to his corner and so givrs | him inspiration to win whon thej hoxer was lying almost knocked _uit at the eml of the sixth nuind. With ; the aid oi his >cconds and trainer he gradually caine to hiiii>ell'. and tlie . realisation hore dnwn on him flint his 1 wife, for wliom he was fiuhting his • greatest hnttle. coiitending lor the eliarajtionsliip title oi England, wa? _at his side, and in tlie next rnnnd. in- ■ spired hy her presence and anxiely, | he (inislied the light. Ihe storv was j tensely dramatic and it has hoen well; saifl that this tilrn i« oue oi the most j rmnarkn lle screen dramas pvrr sliown. The main parts wei'e splomlidlv played. tlie line aeting going n long way , toward the success oi* the film. ( ari : Brisson. the most romantic of all j modern stage lovers, played the part j of tlie hoxer. and in his lirst nppear- j nnce 011 tlie screen xiroved ihat his l'uture success in filmdom is alisnlutely j asRured. Brisson is ex-champion | hoxer of the Danisli Nnvy, and sport- j ing fans in the audienee were 110 1 slow j to discern this by liis very renlistie j aeting dnring tbe fight. Prottv Lilian ! JTall-Davis, wlio is a linn favourite j with Napier theatre-goers. played tlie i part of ihe wife and plaved it won- J derfully well. The role of the chamiv'oti was portrayed hv Tan Hunter. Mr T'litchoock. Ihe dire'r-tor. is to be credited with making oue of tlie best fight piotures pvpi- to he shown in this | eountrv. Txen Ylaynard. wildest dare-j devil of tlie sr-reen, in liis latest and snappiest picture, "The Glorious I Trail." formed ihe socond attraction. J Tliis fast -moving aetion pieture is oue j of ihe finest this popular star has ever i made. It is the tvpe nf enfertain- | ment. tliat has hrmmlit Dfaynard from j ohscurity to a position as one of tlie ' most prominent stars on the scim en to-dav. The hig popular scvial, "Tarzan the Miglitv," adds another chapter of "More Thrills," and with Topienls completes a splendid progrnmme. A partieularlv interesting film of Kingsford-Smith and his fanxous trio with the Sonthern Gross at Blenheim was recoived with close attontion, memhers of the audienee applauding whon the memhers of the crew of ihe fnmoUR aeroplaue, which wns recently dramatically discovered after heing los't- for uearly two xveeks in the wihl of North Australia, Were tlirown on the screen.