"LOST AT THE FRONT."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 15

"LOST AT THE FRONT."

A COMEDY OF WAR DAYS. LIBERTY THEATRE. At both the matinee and evening performr.nces yesterday at the Liberty Theatre there were crowded attendances, who found the holiday fare provided much to their satisfaction. Two favourite comedians, in tho persons of Charlie Murray and Georgo .Sidney, are responsible for most of the fun in "Lost at the Front," one of tho funniest war-time films ever screened. Both artists arc in the first rank of comedians, and their work on this occasion is equal to anything they have yet done. Charlie Murray is in a policeman's uniform for the hundred and fifth time. George Sidney has changed his nationalitv. Famous as Abe Potash in "Potash aud Perlmutter" on stago and screen, and in many other Hebrew roles, he is now, for film purposes, a typical German or Dutch saloonkeeper in New York before the war. The fecne shifts from New York to the Russian front during the war, where they have gone to stop the fighting. They disguise themselves as Russian peasant women to escape being impressed into the army, and narrowly escape becoming members of the Tsar's famous Amazons, tho "Battalion of Death." The fun is fast and furious until they roach New York again. Included in tho cast arc, Natalie Kingston, Max Asher, Ed. Brady, John Kolh, Brookes Benedict, Nitii Marfan, and Nina Romano.

The principal supporting film, "Sealed Lips," tells a story of a young girl w.ho was made use of by an unscrupulous man, in whoso caro her father had left her, aud forced to take charge of a fashionable gambling den. The young man with whom she is in love blames the girl for causing his father's death, and decides to have no more to do with her, particularly since he has previously found her being embraced by another man who, unknown to him, was her own father, his relationship to her being kept secret because of his disreputablo means of livelihood. Tho couple pass through many vicissitudes and unpleasant experiences until their troubles are finally straightened out. The lending roleß arc taken by Dorothy Revier and Cullen Landis, and n number of other well-known stars are in support. Tho Liberty Orchestra, under the baton of Mr Ernest Jamicson, contributes in no small manner to the evening's entertainment, their artistic interpretations earning them npplauso throughout tho programme. The entr'acte, which was encored, was "The Doll Dance" (Baer). During the screening of "Sealed. Lips" the well-known 'cello solo from "William Tell" was played by Mr Keith Werry.