THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 28 November 1930, Page 8

THEATRE ROYAL.

To-night will see the last shoeing of "Alft Button" at the Theatre Royal. Thia latest triumph of the British talking piotnre industry provides really good entertainment. There ba\e comedies and comedies, but never ono with eucb a happy twist of plot as "Alf's Button.' 1 As tbe title indicates, tho Ktory revolves around a button. But the button is made out of a piece of the original Ainddin'r lamp, and ensuing complication are necessarily riotous. LAWRENCE TIBBETT IN "THE KQGUE SONG." ''Tbe Song,'' heralded as the most elaborate all-talking musical picture on the 1930 calendar of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and which comes to the Theatre Royal to-mor-row, with Lawrence Tibbett, the Metropolitan opera star, as its featured player, has a supporting cast which includes Catherine Dale Owen. Wallace Macdonald, Judith Vosselli, Kate Price, Lionel Belmore, James Bradbury, jun., Nance O'Neil, Burr Mcintosh, Florence Lake, and the Roach comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. Tho production was filmed entirely in technicolour, and was directed by Lionel Barrymore. ♦ "The Roguo Song" is a romance laid in tbe Caucasus Mountains of Russia. Tibbett. has tho role of a bandit chief who steals from the rich only to give to the poor, ia the manner of Robin Hood.