‘THE BIG CITY’
A LON CHANEY FILM The first pictorial attraction to be presented at the Octagon Theatre next ciiday will be ‘The Big City,’ a mighty drama of the invisible city, with Lon Chaney in the starring role. The story, a vivid drama of city life in New York, shows Chaney _ as, the chief of a group of gangsters, in a plot of gangster warfare and underworld intrigue. Marcelin'e Day plays the heroine, a shopgirl enmeshed .in the plot, and James Murray the juvenile lead, a young henchman of the gangster tsar. Betty Cbmpson, Matthew Betz, John George, Virginia Pearson, and others of note are in the ,cast. A hold-up- is staged in a replica of _ a famous night club in New York, with Virginia Pearson in the role of the effervescent hostess. ■■ A ballet, composed of a “hand-picked” bevy of screen beauties, trained by Margaret Burt, former Follies dancer, under the supervision of Tod Browning, the director, is one of the elaborate spectacles ih this sequence.
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Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 3
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168‘THE BIG CITY’ Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 3
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