AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 15

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S

p y WINDERMERE'S FAN."

PLAY. . to b« assumed that with mo- " IC h'''i miUk > nCt - literature, and, though he was a"" 11 "Lo respects, the literary value •ijjromi' was not a cylllc nor a ' triM a y * social associations madu JS* US hid it « ot bocn for s r, mc , rc ' a"' *k«bly our literature would have i* probaoi) -When he wrote Lady i ll' he had suilaincd .sonic ruis apparent to those who 3* ' Irelr skinnned it, but who have Sfl m n .ectioa by ™ all s,!Ctlo "' *eekwas behind, or m Wilde's Jw fvhen Lady Windermere s •an was 5i "".j it created a marked nnprcswriters have told us; when it O," flared on the London stage in all and direct speech, a sensation d boldness »> the mm v( . r! ;i () n has come ,t an d was screened at Every l^ C k«[re last night, and while there Jt'i 1. yet it must be conceded rt* 11 Hnrers have acquitted themselves fmve tried very hard to incharacters born in the brilliant Wilde. The weaknesses lie jjd«' or two characterisations, but ...rihadowed hv some of the prinif "tin have caught the spirit and ideas elk to a nicety, the result being a rf*.(extraordinary interest and hisijW' !'..| tr Tho film version has been niei'.'T i least so far as costuming, in( i transportation aro concerntheme itself has been faithfully 14 jSi Tho most piquant situations . retained: much of the caustic wit l»"of Wilde are brought out in tho i:i ff' .nd generally, there is but little Mil The picture is one of Warner " ««li Emest Lubitsch ns tho technical The ens' ' 8 admirably balanced. his the part of Mrs lirlynne, tho ''"• r adventuress with many admirers ila to bo admitted to "society." lll *!2.in«llT succeeds, but finally shows a vein of goodness in her 4,1 » br sacrificing herself to save the 'ufoi of L b<,v Windermere. The part played and not overdone, *JF«iy McAvoy is equally effective ns 1 ffindermcre, the trusting wife whose for her husband are insidiously S««4 until sha leaves her husband for "jtwliwton. Ronald Colman interprets ..r./ narlineton in liis usual capable Bert Lytell is dignified as Lord There are others prominent afntee but the burden of the clever • . 1,111 on the four named. Tho story | J l'',ll known to require travorsing, but !l« it to say that the screen adaptation SVii thoroughly enjoyable. *. Mtund big picture of tho programme *r.£»l of tho war of 1914- „ 'Lj revolves around tho Secret Service Mrtments of Great Britain and Germany. ffj"The Great Deception"—Ben Lyon is lan apparently idle young man, though fiictnfilly in tho British Secret Service, Jillesn Pringle supports him well. Tho ;Vt holds many thrilling situations,_ m*sf M aeroplane duel, terminating in a S for the young Englishman and lii.s ; San flnncec. While rather fanciful in ii» has an undoubted grip, and should 2to all tastes. A Fox News film comII capital programme. 1 nnsie played by tho orchestra under fctwdoelorship of Jtr A. Bidgood was 3 (Men and admirably ployed.