TWO GOOD PICTURES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18230, 14 November 1924, Page 19

TWO GOOD PICTURES.

"MORE TO BE PITIED THAN SCORNED" AND "WHEN THE DESERT CALLS." LIBERTY THEATRE TO-MORROW. "More to be Pitied than Scorned,'' commencing at the Liberty Theatre to-morrow, was filmed from the famous stage melodrama by Charles'E. Blaney, carefully directed by. Edward Le Saint, and produced by Harry Cohn. Th 9 cast is away above the ordinary, containing auch names as Rosemary Theby, Alice Lake, Josephine Adair, Frank Glendon, Gordon Griffith and Philo McCullough. The stopy is one qf .aotor people, into whose mimic life comes',the loves and sorrows they depict upon the stage, and ending as d» all good thrillers with villains deleated tnd love and virtue triumphant in the end. Julian Lorraine, played by Mr Glendon, returns to his home alter playing the leadingrole* in "Persecution" to lind Vincent Grant (Philo McCullough) making love to his wife (Alice Lake).' Tho wife has repulsed Grant who makes his escape through a window just as the husband comes to the door. Believing his wife false, Lorraine takes their little daughter and goes out of the house. Grant has told the wife that Lorraine is in love with the leading woman, Jcaepnine Clifford (Miss Theby). Thie wife rushes wildly from the iouse in search of her husband an<l child., and ie run down by a passingautomobile. , Returning to the house after hours of wandering. Lorraine finds it empty, so takes the. child with him to tho theatre. There sho* is taken in chargq. by the scheming leading woman. . Search for the- wife proving fruitless, and finally getting evidence. of her d6ath in. the river, Lorraine marries the other' woman. After many months, the wife, temporarily unbalanced, 'steals away from the 'hospital attendants, goes to her former home, and steals her baby.. Threatened by Grant, _ Mrs Lorraine decides to return the child to its father, and pom to th* theatre for that purpose. Reunited to his wife. .Lorraine learns of the villainy of his supposed friend, and gets his revenge hy ' making the fight. in the final scene of the snow «. real fight, which he does in a convincing manner.. The 'second feature 6n the progralnme, "When - the Desert, Calls," . is a' powerful story of love and hate,. revenge. and sacrifice, of wonderful heroism, and a,, girl's devotion' to the man ehe loves. .

The supports include a Mermaid comedy entitled "Family Life," -and "How. to Dance the Tango," the third of ai). interesting series of. dancing films by Hepworth. The Liberty Quality under Mr Howard Moody, will play appropriate incidental music.