‘THE BIG CITY’
LON CHANEY TRIUMPHS Lon Chaney’s productions are invariably a guarantee of exceptionally sound entertainment in the dramatic field. ‘The Big City,’’which opens at the Octagon Theatre on Friday, will show the famous star in a new’ light, and give further proof of his amazing versatility. 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. Marceline Day plays the heroine, a shopgirl enmeshed in the plot, and James Murray the. juvenile lead, a young henchman of tho gangster tsar. Betty Compson, Matthew Betz, John George, Virginia Pearson, and others of note are in tho cast. A hold-up is staged in a replica of a famous night club in Now York, with Virginia Pearson in tho role of the effervescent hostess. A ballot, composed of a “ hand-picked ” bevy of screen beauties, trained by Margaret Burt, forme: Follies dancer, under the supervision of Tod Browning, the director, is one of the elaborate spectacles in this sequence.
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 2
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176‘THE BIG CITY’ Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 2
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