EMPRESS AND CRYSTAL PALACE
Here is something different in the way of 100 per cent, talkies, two of them on the same programme. “Crook” dramas were the most popular type of entertainment in the silent days, but since talking pictures became the vogue no real attempt has been made to put such melodrama on the screen until Columbia produced “Light Fingers,” which is now one of the two big attractions at the Crystal Palace and Empress Theatres.
It comes as a refreshing change to the mystery drama which has monopolised talking picture vehicles. The story takes so many sudden twists that the audience becomes completely absorbed, and 75 minutes’ entertainment flashes past just as if it had been a-quarter of an hour.
Equally outstanding is the second attraction, “Acquitted,” starring Margaret Livingston, Lloyd Hughes and bam Hardy. It has gripping suspense, brilliant dialogue, and a fascinating plot dealing with the law and the underworld.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 16
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154EMPRESS AND CRYSTAL PALACE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 16
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