RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 14

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“THE SIGN OF FOUR” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the original plot of “The Sign of Four,” the big attraction on the bill at both the Princess and the Tivoli. Here we have, slightly brought up-to-date, tile strange story of a blood pact and mysterious murders which, of course, cmnpletely baffled Scotland Yard. Sherlock Holmes, probably the bestknown character in fiction, complete with his mouse-coloured dressing gown and his violin, makes a great series of deductions and clears up the affair, though not before there has been an abduction (the murders happened long before), a speed boat race down the Thames, and a rescue from a burning yacht. “My dear Watson” develops "niourousness,” and he cannot be blamed after seeing the heroine. Glimpses of London, especially Limehouse. add to the interest of the picture, which is a rattling good one. The story begins in the Andaman Islands, whfcre a convict discloses the place w here treasure is buried in order that the governor will allow him to escape. Four men agree to share the treasure equally, and a blood pact is made. The treachery of one brings the story about. When two sisters love the same man, and said man just can’t seem to make up his mind which one he loves — things are apt to become quite complicated. Especially so, when one of the girls has always lived under the slogan. “Love 'em and leave, 'em,” and the second suddenly decides to adopt it too. That’s a sketchy outline of what happens to Evelyn Brent, Lawrence Gray and Louise Brooks in Frank Tuttle’s “Love ’em and Leave ’em,” which will be shown on the same programme.