PICTURE THEATRES

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 5

PICTURE THEATRES

EMPIRE ‘ Kid Hoots ’ was most successful stage play, and in screen form it losc's none of its original piquancy and charm. The picture is being shown at the Empire Theatre, and has Clara Bow and Eddie Cantor in the leading roles. Tho greater part of the story is set at a fashionable Jmliday resort, where Clara How has the part of a swimming instructress, who falls in love with Cantor. Lawrence Gray is scon as a golf 'professional, and Billie Dove, who has the part of the hotel proprietor’s daughter. falls in love with him. The love entanglement between these two couples, with the comedy supplied by Cantor and Hank Mann, makes this production ono of the most hilarious. The story deals with the attempts of Lawrence Gray’s wile, whom he is trying to divorce, to have the divorce broken olf when her erstwhile husband inherits fortune. Through the intervention of Eddie Cantor, however, this attempt is frustrated. Later, when they meet and fall in love with two girls, complications set in. The scheming wife is finally outwitted, however, and the romances between the two girls continue successfully. GCTAGGN A period of several years is covered in * The Fourth Commandment,’ which is being screened at the Octagon Theatre, and the various characters are called upon to traverse the span between youth and old age. The subsequent transi urinations on tlie part of the east are triumphs of make-up. Bello Bennett enters the stu. ; a young girl, and successfully grows' older as the story unfolds. In the final fade-out she is magnificent in the disillusionment of fifty. When the story opens Mary Carr is seen as a mother in her twenties. Her son is four. The real Mary Carr is the mother of six, the eldest is over twenty, yet she appears very youthful in the picture. Again in a later sequence she is seen' as an old grandmother, weary and feeble. Juno Marlowe likewise proves her ability to portray difficult character roles. Her story in the picture parallels that of Miss Bennett, and demands the same ago change. Make-up is thus the face costumo_ of the screen, and is one of the most important details of brilliant character delineation. Among the supporting east arc Robert Agiicw, June Marlowe. Frank Elliott, Kathleen Myers, Brady Kilne, and four-year-old Wendell Phillips Franklin. 1 The Fourth Commandment ’ is from an original photoplay by Einilie Johnson, QUEEN’S Bebo Daniels is now starring at the Queen’s Theatre in ‘A Kiss in a laxi, a frisky French I’arco comedy, with a lot more comedy than farce in it, and with Chester Conkiu to keep the laughs iu evidence when Bebo is busy with the romance. The story is rather different from the usual polite and luxurious pictures assigned to Miss Daniels, for she is a waitress m a French cafe for a change, with all the students and artists from Montmartre and the Quarticr to make love to her, and, of course, the inevitable handsome American to win her in the end. It is all very amusing, and quite romantic and pleasing, characterised by good acting and clever burlesque on the part of the inimitable Conklin. Lon Cbaiicv, “ the man of a thousand faces,” ab lasl. reveals tho features that have never been seen, except_ under some grotesque disguise, in his portraval of a grizzled sergeant ol marines in‘‘Tell it to the Marines,’ hisjatest picture, which commences on Friday. William Haines, Eleanor Boardman. and Carmel Alveus arc also in tins Mctro-Goldwyu-Maycr production. EVERYBODY’S ‘Three Hours,’ one of the attractions at Everybody’s Theatre, features (Jonune Griffith as tho victim ol an unjust and unreasonable husband, who divorces her cm purely circumstantial evidence, and lakes her child from hci. In this picture -Miss Griffith gives one of the greatest emotional performances of her career. Hobart Bosworth gives a powerful portrayal of tho cruel husband, ami Bowers is ideally cast as the friend in need. ‘Tho Exquisite binncr,’ the other picture, is an adaptation of A bleu Brook’s novel, ‘Escape, and is portrayed by a talented cast, including Conrad Nagel as tho hrouoilman, Renee Adoree as the gipsy. George Iv, Arthur, Paulette Diiwiljaiul Frank Currier. in ‘Evening one ol the attractions promised for Friday, Adolphe Menjou is cast as a suave, sophisticate of Paris, a. vole which should help _ to make him more Mr Mcu.ion lias appeared in ‘ A Social Celebrity, ‘Tho Ace of Cads,’ and was chosen for tho principal part iu ‘Sorrows ol Satan ’ Lewis Stone is featured with Billio Dove and Lloyd Hughes m the second picture, ‘An Allair of tho Lollies.’ Lewis Stone is in the role ol a millionaire broker and theatre patron. Miss Dove as a chorus girl who retired to marry a penniless clerk, played by Lloyd Hughes. FLAZA AND GRAND Tom Mix is the star in ‘The Great K. and A. Robbery,’ Paul Leicester Ford’s story, now showing at the Plaza ami Grand Theatres. Supporting tho popular Mix iu the photoplay are such favorites as IVirothy Dwan (who docs some daring horseback riding), Harry Gripp, William Walling, Carl Miller, Edward Foil. sen., “net Curtis MTlcnry. Uproarious comedy touches vie with spectacular stunts in ‘Hands Across the Border,’ the supporting picture, starring Fred Thomson and Silver King. , Tho hack-ground of the whole .picture is ablaze with color, romance, and speed, and it gives Mr Thomson perhaps tlm most picturesque rolo ho has played since ‘That Devil, Qucmado.’ ROSLYH A merry time is promised pa Irons of the Roslyn Theatre to-night when Buck Jones will bo seen in a thrilling Western picture, entitled ‘ The Desert’s Price.’ Tho story of tho picture, which has its action in old Arizona, is from the novel by William MacLeod Raine. Florence Gilbert, Edna Marion, Ernest Buttenvortli, and Arthur Houseman are also featured in this production. A A new and novel attraction is announced for to-night, when a mouth organ competition is to bo staged.