AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

LIBERTY THEATRE. , f. ■. r~ •. "SONG OF SOHO."

Two friends discharged from the Foreign Legion return to London, and start" a restaurant and cabaret, in the j opening scenes of ''Song of Sohot" at the Liberty .this week. The younger becomes engaged to the daugti-' tor of his partner, and then gets, into trouble with another woman, who is mysteriously murdered a few minutes before .he arrives at her flat, so that he is arrested just us he finds her dead body. He Jb put on trial for' murder,' and the chief witness''-for the defence, ah old' blind street violinist; to whom the hero had been talking at the moment the shot was fired, cannot be found." tVhen' the case" litis been half, heard, however, his - partner stumbles across the -old violinist in- the .street, and brings him to Court. As' the. witness is blind, he can only identify the hero by hearing him sing, and with his Honour's permission the acxtised' sings -to the Court from the-dock, and the violinist accompanies-liim from'the wit-ness-box. The jury, ■ without retiring, reports that there is. plainly no case against: accused, and he is, honourably discharged. The picture is a British production, starring. Carl Brisson, Eonald Oalthrop, .and Kdna Davies,. , There is o remarkably good cabaret scene, in .it, .* and at least one good song,'. "My'Beautiful-Girl in the Moon," ; ; The othor. picture on the programme is ,' 'The Racketeer," with .Robert; Armstrong andfOa'rol Lombard,' a drama-'of the wilder side, of New York life that occasionallyverfees on melodrama. ■