"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 14

"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

The all-dialogue picture, "Three Live Ghosts." comes to both the Grand Opera House and the Regent Theatre on Saturday. The talking screen in picturing this stage triumph permits, it is said, a greater field of expression to the story which, as a play, was a seii--satiou in England and in America. This is largely due to graphic qualities of tho plot Three soldiers escape from their German prisons and arrive in London, where they nnd themselves listed as "dead." "Spoofy," one pf the trio, is a shell-shocked soldier, evidently a gentleman, who has forgotten his identity. The second is Jimmy Gubblns, a cockney boy mourned by his gin-loving stepmother and' Peggy' Woofers, his sweetheart, both of whom have been conducting seances to communicate with him in the spirit world. Tho last member of the group is William Foster, an American who seeks to begin life anew, as lie had enlisted In the army to avoid arrest and disigraco for stealing bonds from his father's office. There is a 5000 dollar reward awaiting anyone telling of Foster's whereabouts. When Jimmy and his cronies arrive at tho Gubbins's domicile, "Old Sweetheart," as his stepmother is known, is dumbstruck. "Old Sweetheart" takes to Jimmy's companions. Rose Gordon, another lodger, recognises Jimmy Foster as the man to whom sho has given her heart, and whom she believed dead. "Old Sweetheart" contldes In Jimmy her plan to obtain the reward offered for Foster, and on the pretence of going to the store, gets Scotland Yard on Foster's trail Meanwhile "Spoofy," always in a semi-daze as a result of shell-shock, has gone off to the home of Lady Leicester, wnere he has stolen the family jewels and kidnapped the infant w?ii i-e ' and TeSains the Gubbin home, vihlle his friends are planning the return of the infant and the booty ?... Scotland Yard delcctlvo walks in While the detective is questioning the others fepoofy, unobserved, steals into the room and escapes with the plunder. At the • station housa there is a general reunion when Spoofy joins the others in tha custody of "Snn n e fr» d hecUve- ■ CUbbed !nto Emission, bpoofy has regained his memory from tho « " ?° ls LorU L«'cester, missing army officer and man of wealth. He is amazed to i ( n rt 1, as robbed his own house, and abpockets her half of the- reward and uartlcinnte^