AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE PRIMROSE PATH." WITH CLARA BOW. EVERYBODY'S, TO-DAY. It takes a. good story to make a good picture, eo "The Primrose Path" has that in its favour. Also in its favour is Miss Clara Bow. who surely is the most likely exponent of the art of the Primrose Path that could be found. Mies Bow invests her picture with a vast amount of that pert charm and airy indifference that makes a good drama as pood a comedy, and as the cabaret dancer in this film, she wriggles a shoulder to the immense piquancy of the story. Xor all this lighter aspect, however. The Primrose Path." as a picture, is cast m a more nielodramatio mould, with the conventional villain, the mysterious crime, the sinister influence that even the unselfish heroine, withal a cabaret dancer, cannot break. Thus the plot embodies a great deal of everything, and embodies it in clever manner. It has something of the realities of life in it as well as the romanticism that often finds its way down from the clouds of fancy, and when it is not treading the heavy tiack of drama, it is whistling gaily to the pipes of Pan. dangerous music, as Sir Philip Gibbs indulgently remarks, for young minds with shingled hair and jade earrings. The picture is a fair representation of the pre-sent-day attitude towards conventions and traditions, and thereby is exhilarating independent and not without its atte ." da ™ humours. Appearing with Clara Bow m the cast are Arline Pretty. Lydia Knott. Tom Santschi, and Stuart Holmes. Kenneth Harlan plays the title role in "The Sap/' the supporting feature on the programme. This picture is a little, gem i a miniature masterpiece in its wonderful presentation of human nature, telling the story of the mother's boy who was decorated as one of the little heroes of the Great War. and who was really a hopeless coward On his return from Prance, his endeavours to live up to his new reputation are fraught with Pathos and comedy, but when he finds that he really can • abide by cats (the, great Napoleon was also tremblingly terrified of cats? he polishes off *he town bully, silences everybodv, and marries the girl. It fs a pkture without a hero, and a particulary good one at that. Eulalie Jensen and Mary McAlister play opposite Harlan. OH* Select Oichestra. under the direction of Mr Albert BdS 'will play the following musical nrocramme: Overture, "Euryanthe (Weberj, "MflitaT Symphony" (Haydn . 'f^., an f Talma"? (Campbell), "Con d'Avril" (Wider, "Milenka" (Blocks); selections Bal Miieim» v "Werther (Massenet). we at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.