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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 44, 10 April 1930, Page 5

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George Braacroft's greatest

Drama.

The Chief of .Police.

The King George Theatre is following up its rapidly inere'a singly list of popular talkies with vet another. "The Mighty." . '-■■'■•■ ' '

George Bancroft, huge and good-na-tured star of several, successes, will make many fresh admirers by ius work. Playing opposite "Bancroft is beautiful Esther Ralston, and those in the notable supporting cast include Dorothy Rcvier, Warner bland. -Bancroft plays the part, of a gu'nmah,-JGreeson, who sneers-at such high .ideals as are pos-

sessed by those .who 'enjisi -for seryiee. in Prance, during, the Great "War.' Even-. tuaflly ,howover, he is forced to .go to the front, where his recklessness wins, for him promotion and decoration. One i of his brother: officers, Jerry. Patterson,. quails before the -horrors of trench, warfare, but .at Jait he proves his worth, giving his life in a" desperate act of. bravery, LoVe. of fighting, wMeh had prior to the, war made -him a hero-of I the underworld, makes him a hero ,of the upper world on -his return from the ' war. Such is the public admiration for him tiat he is made Chief of Police in the very town in which, he had reign: «d in his old capacity. Tflien there is Esther Ralston as tjhe society girl who knows his past but goes on her brother's maxim that a dog given a^ good name will live up 'ta ity There is) Warner Oland as the insidious gang leader, wiho underestimates Bancroft's prowess. There is,. Raymond Hatton,. who provides the comedy element as Bancroft's pal, and Dorothy Reviex as the sweetheart Of the past, and ,O. P. Heggie in the role of the father wfop forgives.