EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 15

EMPIRE

“TWINKLETOES” The film production of one of Thomas Burke’s most famous ’Limehouse tales, "Twinkletoes," heads an excellent entertainment bill at the Empire Theatre, with Colleen Moore —in golden curls instead of her sleek, dark bob —in the stellar role. Throughout the film is the colourful atmosphere of the world’s most storied waterfront slum. Depicting famous characters of the Burke story is a group of noted supporting players, among whom are Kenneth Harlan, Gladys BrockweXl, Walter Oland, Tully Marshall, Julanne Johnston. Lucian Littlefield and John Philip Kolb. Unnamed on the screen but effective in a great diversity of picturesque types and characters, and many other players who represent the swarming, colourful mixture of races found in that crossroads and melting pot of the world, London Limehouse. Beauty as well as squalor is to be found in the Limehouse picture, and particularly in a sequence wherein one hundred and twenty pretty girls dance. The general air of danger, mystery and intrigue of the slum lends “itself well to a plot that is full of supense and thrills. Jack Hoxie will appear in “The Wild Horse Stampede," also to be screened at the Empire to-night. Conrad Xagel and Renee Adoree play the leading roles in "Heaven on Earth." a picture which tells of the adventures of a young man, who although surrounded by luxury only j found true happiness with a travelling I band of gipsies. Gwen Lee, Julia ; Swayne Gordon, Marcia Manon and Pat Hartigan are included in the cast iof supporting players.