AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 26

AMUSEMENTS.

" CONVOY." AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR. LIBERTY' THEATRE, MOXDAT. "Convoy." a First National picture with a five-star cast supported by maDV lesser placer;, heads the bill at the Liberty Theatre scribed as the most cove!, and perhaps the cleverest of ail war pictures yet produced. Tor the very word "Convoy" conjures up

visions of stately processions across the Seven Seas, of honourable escorts, of oceangoing greyhounds, of espionage and hurried aratna, of the thousand things that went haud-ic-hand with war those days. The only war scene in the entire him ia a faithful reproduction of the naval battle between the British Fleet v v.uen it bottled up the enemy ships in Kiel Harbour; but mis bit is thrilling and human enough to compensate i'or the trenches, entanglements, and niiu-k that one can see in army films. The plot, and the subsequent development thereof, which makes, in largo part, the actual story, is concerned with German espionage in America, and how a girl renounced hc-r inheritance and her lover to thwart, or help thwart, the fell designs of the controller of the system, and of how oho earned the title

"the face that saved a thousand ships," for the convoy sails in safety, and the girl pays the price of patriotism. It is a. solid story made into au exceptionally brilliant picture through inspired direction and sympathetic acting, a story that showers its humour, its human interest, its seething drama as generously as it saowersthe thrills of war in the great sequence of the film. It is a dedication to the Xavy, not the American Xavy only, for art i-s universal, and chivalry is international. It is n picture that makes a lively appeal to the imagination. In the loading role Miss Dorothy ATaekaill is excellent, lending a tragic air to her part that is quite va accordance with it; Lowell Sherman, as the urbane director of the spy system in America is,'of course, the most brilliant performer in the piece, while Lawrence Gray. William Collier, jiin., and lan Kei'li complete the quintet' of stars, who add dignity and quality to "Convoy." In "The Auctioneer" audiences see on tho screen tho great David Belasco's most successful stage venture; they also see, to their huge delight, George Sidney and .Saramy Cohen —Sammy Cohen who was the direct cause of so much mirth as the meandering private of "What Price Glory." "The Auctioneer" is a humorous story of the Xov York. Ghetto, exquisitely natural, and fall of the laughs and tears that male;: life. Marion Xixon and Gareth Hustles pi;vy "ho juveifile leads in this delightful liitiu craaa. The Concert Orchestra,, under Mr Ernest .Tamieson, will play the following ■ musical programme: Overture, "EuryantUc" (Weber'i, "Symphony" (Ha.iyn), "The Jiroica" (1.. van Beethoven), "Ballet Music." (Motart). "The Flying Dutchman" (Wagner-), cal Scenes" (Fletcher), "Gems from Si.llivan" (Higgs), "Minuet" (Paderewsl:;), "Adelaide" (Beethoven), "Co'onel Bogey" (Alford).. "A Lane in Spain." "Let's AH Go Down to Alice's House" (X. Amos). The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats t"a>" he reserved.