"DADDIES" AND "THE BRUTE MASTER."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 15

"DADDIES" AND "THE BRUTE MASTER."

♦— LIBERTY THEATRE, TO-MORROW

"Daddie*" is the title of tho Warner Brothers' rclwe, which is to head the new programme at the Liherty Theatre to-mor-row. Tho story wis adapted from (ho David Belaseo play cf that name, and features in the cast Mae Marsh and Harry Myers. Bachelor life famishes tho motive power for "Daddies." It is the story of five Yale men who, whilo yet in college, form a bacW.ors' club. Each aprrecs not to marry unless he first pays a five thousand do.lar resignation fee to the club. The story opens with the annual banquet of tho club. A suggestion is adopted at this banquet which, unbeknown to the members, signs tho club s death warrant. Each member agrees to adopt a war orphan. Later one member finds out his "orphan" is ft beautiful girl seventeen rears old. Another finds his "orphan" to "bo triplets. Then tho bachelors each learn that adopting orphans ia an easy matter, but looking after them is a much different thins. Tho attempts of tho foster fathers to look aiter their charges {rive rise to some exquisite comedy, intermingled with real heart interest. Of course, the inevitable happens. Kach finds, with the exception of tho one who adopted the seventeen-year-old orphan, that child-raising requires the gentle hand of a mother. The}- had all fallen so deeply in love with tho respective children that it. seemed easier to get a. mother than lose tho child. In the casa of the bachelor who adopted the young lady, jt in a ditt'erent story, but in the end everything is "'solved by all five getting marriod and providdno; nice homes and pood parents for a bunch of promising youngsters. The supporting cast includes Claude Gi'.lingwater, Craufurd Kent, Claire Adams, Willard Louis, Boyce Cpombe, Georgia Woodthorpc, Otto Hoffman, Pripcilla Dean Moran, De Bri*c Twins,, King Evers, and Milly Darenport. Hobart Bosworth is the star in the second attraction, 'The Brute Master," with Ann* Q. Nilsaon, who has often been called the screen's most beautiful blonde, playing opposite him. The story is by Mrs Jack London, and seldom has Bosworth had a story that eo ideally fitted him. He plays the rolo of <i hard-fighting, brutal, domineering sea captain, who ruled his littlo world by right of might—until a beautiful girl came alon«. She hated and feared him, and show, cd it. Thev arc cast aaboro, by the burning of their ship, on an island inhabited by friendly South Sea Islanders, and here tho story reaches a fine dramatic climax. There is plenty of action, some fine eea. views, and the fire scenes on the ship have seldom been equalled. Tho supports will include a Itoafih-Patbe comedy, "Sold at Auction," featuring Snub Pollard in the rolo of an auctioneer, and a special film showing the arrival and reception in Wellington of the new Governor-General. Sir Chas, Fcrcusson. The Liberty Quality Orehg&tra, under Mr Howard Moody, will play an attractive musical programme.