BAND CONCERT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 23 December 1924, Page 16

BAND CONCERT.

The Caledonian Pipe Band will play th« following programme on tho St. Albans -■ bud lotnnd* to-morrow evening:—March, fc ' "Pibroch of Donald Dhu"; march, "Jenny"a £ B»wW; march, "Johnny Copa"; inarch, v> "i "ftM Gird on Highlanders"; itraihapey, U< # Wriiftf D Caftl."; r«l, "Sleepy Maßßie"; fls rßwtl>n4 the Brava"; march. "Laaa fltfirito"; march, "Olendarual Highland* Pjilrjfßffk wnttfc "By lb* Swoat Bitoer Light "Barren Rocka t t

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. "K, TEE UNKSOWK.* "QUIAXrr ADAMS SAWYER." Mr V. M. Beebe has secured * fine programme of photo-plays for the entertainment of Greater Crystal Palace patrons this week —just such a programme as holiday audiences will revel in. The first of the two big feature* is "Quincy Adams Sa.wy?r,' f an eight-reel Metro production, in which a brilliant cast of .actors sra engaged. When it is Itnown that the cast includes such artist aa Blanche Sweet, Lon Chaney (oi " nunchback lame), June John Bowers, Louisa t'azenda, £»iino Lincoln itae "string man" ci the ecroen;, Barbara La Marr, and others, it Do undeiatocul that ttie picture i 3 one ot ouistanding merit, blanche Sweet 3 work in this thrilling romance 1a aa good as any-oixig a;ie has ever done, not excepting ner acting under the iJ. W. On— -Ji 4 --anner a Chaney naa a character part which he uua admirably, and the oilier labourites are equally well cast. The story is "cm the boo* by Charles lrehon Pidgin and it numbers its readers in tens of thousands. There is no need to say anytum? of the story hare, for it is well known to all who have aat engnpped by | ta pathos, it.l love interest, and its thrilis, but it ia only fair to the picture to state definitely that all those who have read the novel and have formed their own ideas of the characters, will cot be disappointed when they see those characters come 10 life on thscreen. John Bowers, who starred in many a likeable rcmantic rele, has the title part, and the otbur characters, Alice Pettmfiill, Obadiah ritrout, Abner SUes, Mapdy Skinner, arc all and more than one had imagined them to be. The comedy element is extremely well hand.ed, and the enaracter work 13 excellent and the atmosphere realistic. This play is one of the moat ambitious that Hetro has turned out, not cn account of its bi£_ sets and -avisli production, though it has those attributes, but for the sheer dramatic value of its story and the excellence of its interpretation, both as regards the director's conception of the piece and the actors' portrayal 0£ the pars. A Mary Roberts Rinehart stcry provide tha scenario of the second bipr feature. "K, the Unknown." Full of alluring mystery and with an umuual and most appealing love story, this makes an excellent photoplay. Percy Marmot, who will be remembered for his fine work in "If Winter Cornea," has the principal male role, and Virginia Valli is the feminine lead in a part which suits her admirably. The mystery element is well handled, the solution of the problem being hidden in a manner which whets the curiosity of the audience to a point which keeps them in aus[. jnsa mtil the last flicker. "The Fast Express" (serial), an International News, and a Century comedy complete a fine hill. The Symphony Orchestra provided a delightful musical programme. The overture, "Pique Dame," beginning at the andantino, a duet for fiute and clarinet, was well received. In the absence of Mr Withers, owing to illness, Mr ClarJc3en pWy carried out the clarinet part, with Mr Amofl flaut st. The entr'acte was "Doo Boo,"* a bright and taking little piece, which got a. well-de-eervrd encore. The first movement of the "Italian Symphony" (Mendelsohn) was one of the classic pieces of the programme, which received excellent treatment. "The Carnival'' (Montaguel, "Le Villi" (Puccini), and - a selection from the works of Off-nbaoh -"re anion? the many other (food pieces which went to make up an enjoyable musical programme. STRAND THEATRE. Boy Stewart in "Pure Grit," heads the new bill at the Strand Theatre. Bob Evans, a Texas ranger, meets a stranger who evidently was only ehooting rabbits. ' Later, Evans visits Stella Bolliajj, the district school teacher. Immediately after he leaves the stranger visits her, identifying himself as her .brother whom she hae not seen in ten years. He is shot and asks her aid as well as help to get over the Border he escaped from gaol. That night Lvaßs visits her with the intention of proposing. Because her "brother" is peeping from the next room she refuses. Buddy Clark, an orphan cared for by Stella, discovers another wounded man in the foothills, and takes him to his secret cabin. Buddy hears hii patient rave and reveal that he is Frank Boiling, Stella's brother The boy tells the ranger. They dash out to overtake Stella her supposed brother. The chase leads to a cabin near the border. Here the outlaw Kemp attacks her. Then he rescues Stella from certain death, after the buggy she flees in, topples over a cliff.