"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 5

"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

Tho all-dialogue picture, "Three Live Ghosts," conies to both the Grand Opera House and the Kegent Theatre to-morrow. 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 sensation in England and In America. This is largely due to graphic qualities of the plot. Three soldiers escape , from their German prisons and arrive ill London, where they find themselves listed as "dead." "Spoofy," one of the trio, is a shell-shocked soldier, evidently a gentleman, who has forgotten his identity. The secoud is Jimmy Gubbins, 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 tho spirit world. Tho last member of the group is William Foster, an American, tvho seeks to begin life anew, as he had enlisted In the army to avoid arrest and dislgrace 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 the Gubblns'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 she has given her heart, and whom she believed dead. "Old Sweetheart" confides in Jimmy her plan to obtain tho reward offered lor Foster, and on the pretence of going to the store, gets Scotland Tard 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, where he has stolen the family jewels and kidnapped the infant son and heir, and regains the Gubbin home. While his friends are planning the return of the infant and the booty a Scotland Yard detective walla. In While the detective is questioning the others, Spoofy, unobserved, steals into the room and S"*^1" 1 . th° plunder- At the station house there Is a general reunion, when fepoofy" joins the others in the custody of another detective. Clubbed Into submission Spoofy" has regained his memory from the blows, ne is Lord Leicester, missing army g£h an a r?obldW^own^^Tnri a£ SgtS harness*" **&£i£S& pockets her half of the reward and plrtlcipltes