"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 7

"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

"Three Live Ghosts," the all-talking comedydrama, featuring on all-star cast, which opens simultaneously at tho Regent Theatre and Grand Opera House on Saturday, is different in Its theme, story construction, and locale from any all-talking picture thus far produced. There are no court-room, theatre, or night club scenes depicted in "Three Live Ghosts," nor does the picture feature a theme song or song and dance specialties. Thornton Freeland, director "Three Live Ghosts," pointed out that every all-talking picture produced to date has either featured back-stag life, a court-room locale, or was a singing and dancing revue. Freeland. was quick to rhako it understood that ho was directing no criticism against any talking picture, but merely wanted to point out that "Three Live Ghosts" was entirely different in that it included none of the themes feature in other talking pictures. "Three Live Ghosts," Freeland revealed, deals with the complications that arise when three British soldiers, after escaping from a German prison camp, return to London and learn to their amazement that they have been listed by the Government as "killed in action." The picture has an all-stage east, which includes Beryl Mercer, Charles M'Naughton, Robert Montgomery, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Hilda Vaughn, Shayle Gardner, Harry Stubbs, Jack Cooper, Jocelyn Lee, Nancy Price, and Tenen Holtz. Max Marcia, noted playwright, who presented the play in New York, was brought to Hollywood by United Artists to adapt and stage the all-dialogue film version.