REGENT THEATRE AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 6

REGENT THEATRE AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

"Three Live Ghosts," an entertaining alltalking production. Is vow being screened at both tho Kegent Theatre and tho Grand Opera House. Three British soldiers escape from a German prison camp and return to their former haunts In London, only to learu that they are legally dead in the eyes of tUo Government and their friends. One of them, an American, foiled in his hope for death on tho balllcflold to expiate a crlmo ho had committed In his native land, finds himself tho object of a search by tho police. Tho second member of the trio has lost his reason a victim of shellshock. His mind clears following :t blow from a policeman's club, and he discovers he has kidnapped his own child! The third wages a battle of wits with his gin-soaked stepmother, who, dazzled by the reward offered for the American, connives to bring about and colourful highlights of "Three """live CJhosts," an all-talking film version of tUo famous New York and London stago play Brilliantly acted by an all-star cast, several of whom havo never before appeared before a | camera, "Three Live Ghosts" introduces several

new and magnetic personalities to the screen as its absorbing story unfolds. Prominent among them is Beryl Slercer, who, as "Old Sweetheart," a product of London's slums, gives one of the finest characterisations ever scon on the screen. Charles M'Naughton, Claud Allister, and Robert Montgomery, as the "Three Live Ghosts," give delightful and convincing performances, as do Hilda Vaughn, Joan Bennett, and Shayle Gardner. Excellent supports nre also screened, while at tho Grand Opera House Mr. Jack Lumsdalne, tho Australian baritone, presents a further series of soiijjs Box plans as usual for tho Regent, and at the Bristol, Berkeley, and the theatre for the Grand Opera House.