'CHINATOWN CHARLIE'

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 7

'CHINATOWN CHARLIE'

JOHHKY HINES’S LATEST Johnny Hines’s latest First National picture, 1 Chinatown Charlie,’ which has been declared by New York and Hollywood critics to bo the comedian's biggest and funniest production to date, has been secured for the Empire Theatre, and will bo shown on Friday next. ‘ Chinatown Charlie ’ is a screen adaptation of tho famous old melocomic extravaganza from the pen of the prolific playwright, Owen Davis, and it scored a great success on the speaking stage 'at the time M h ad' den’s Flats ’ was on the boards. i’bc film adaptation of the picture lias been treated in a highly humorous manner, burlesquing New York’s underworld, and at the same time retaining the thrills of the original play._ The producer secured a large cast of comedians to surround his star in the production, with Louise Lorraine playing the leading feminine role. An added feature is the appearance of the iamons Mazy.etti Troupe of acrobats who take part in the Chinese cabaret scones, and also furnish a sensational thrill by forming a human bridge from one second story window to another across a Chinatown street. Louise Lorraine and the comedian effect their escape from a Chinatown den on this human bridge. The action begins in New Yorks ‘ Times ’ square, whore Johnny Hines is a guide on a sight-seeing bus taking a party through Chinatown. It is when lie reaches the Chinese quarters that sequences' of a thrilling nature begin to happen. A stirring tale of the Canadian North-west Mounted Police, entitled ‘Code of the Scarlet,’ is Ken Maynard’s latest picture, which will also be shown. Tho exciting days of early (.old settlement form tho background of the story, while romance is provided through happy love scenes between the policeman and a plucky pioneer girl. During the next four weeks at the Empire Theatre eight Charlie Chaplin comedies will be screened. The two for next Friday are entitled The Rink ’ and ‘ Tho Pawnshop,’ which were among Charlie’s first pictures.