MYSTERY DRAMAS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18896, 11 January 1927, Page 13

MYSTERY DRAMAS.

THE CAMPBELL BOYS. LIBERTY THEATRE. The orchestra strikes up that spirited air, "Tho Campbells are Coming," and then the Campbell Boys, Colin and Jack, make their appearance on the stage of the Liberty Theatre. - They have a stage personality that immediately finds the hearts of their audience, and when their act was ended there were insistent recalls. Two finer players of the concertina would be difficult to find, and they play all their numbors with a vim and eclat that sets the feet moving at once. "Barcelona" and "That Certain Party," which were accompanied by a simultaneous dance, were the most popular numbers of their repertoire, and they showed that they aro as capable dancers as they are musicians. Another number one of the duo played on the ocarina to the accompaniment of his brother's instrument. As well as playing popular music, there were several more or loss classical airs, and a very good imitation of church chimes. The Campbell Boys and their smiles and their concertinas made themselves instantly popular with their audience. "Borrowed Flnory," the story of a girl who found herself entangled with crooks and detectivos in a jewel robbery under the Impression that she was assisting Uncle Sam to discover tho smuggler of a valuabls emerald, has for its principal mummers Louise Lorraine, Ward Crano, and Lou Tellcgen. The acting all through the piece is very good, particularly on the part of Miss Lorraino and two gentlemen who portrayed Semitic dealers in gorgeous raiment. Sheila Conroy was a mannequin in tho establishment of these gentlemen until she ruined a valuablo gown at a rowdy party at the home of a wealthy larrikin, who delighted in practical jokes such as precipitating his guests in a swimming pool whilst they were fully clothed, and she was fired from her position. An amiable gentleman nt the party had told her that if ever.she wished for a good job with a good salary, and which offered the opportunity to meet charming, worth-while people, to go to him, and consequently she did. Her first assignment, she found, was to become a member of a house-party given by a woman, whom the amiable gentleman suspected of smuggling jewels, and she told another young man whom she had met at the fateful party that she was going there. The young gentleman, Number Two, discovered that there was nowhere in the world to which he would rather go than this houseparty, and they met there. In course of time, very short time, they kissed. Then the very handsome young man told her that he loved her, but he had no time to tell her more because her employer was waiting for the evidence to arrest the hostess. Her admirer found her very expertly opening the safe and abstracting the emerald after she had very cleverly discovered the combination of the lock, and, after the manner of experienced thieves who havo been forestalled on a job, he offered to share with her._ She got to her room with the goods and handed them over to the person from the Secret Service. Then sho followed him to his Broadway office,' followed in her turn by tho amorous co-thief. There was a show-down, as it is called in the best literature from the Land of the Bootlegger, and it turned out that the Secret Service person was a thief, and the supposed co-thief was a detective. The lady flew to the respectable home of her sister at Bronx, and next day applied for her position at the abode of the two gentlemen of Hebraic nncestry. Just as Bhe was being received her detective arrived, handcuffed her, and arrested her—for life. The other picture on the bill was Tho Unknown Purple," » tale of tho revenge of a wronged man. This picture was well acted and well produced, and there was a thrill of mystery and suspense running right through it. It was something different from the ordinary run of mystery drama. The Liberty Concert Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr Ernest Jamieson, played a programme of music which was in keeping with the pictures