"SPORTING LIFE."

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18673, 23 April 1926, Page 7

"SPORTING LIFE."

FAMOUS DRUBY LANE DRAMA. GRIND THEATRE, MONDAY. The lights o' London; the breathless hash that hangs over Ascot as the horses are led out; the dazzling - beauty of glittering revues; deep, dark mysteries—"Sporting Life." The picture that epitomises all these things is coming to the Grand Theatre on Monday,- Btarring- Bert Lytell and Marian Nixon. Adapted from Seymour Hicks's great .stage success, it has retained that air of insouciance and sophistication that is invariably associated with that talented author, and transferred to the screen it has added action, colour, and romance. Frankly melodramatic, this sparkling story is never strained in either plot' or . treatment, and receives artistic consideration from the actors. It takes one through a mad whirl of the hectic night life of London, thrilling mysteries lurking around corners, a sporting peer staking all on his horse entered in the Derby, the horse waylaid on the eve of the race, and a thousand other aspects of entertainment. Brilliant women and fighting men are all mixed up in a plot that whirls.its adventurous way to a semiclimax in the ring, to go on and end in a burst of excitement at Epsom Downs. "Sporting Life" has been presented with a magnificence regardless of expenditure. Revues, cafe scenes; balls, all the glamour that 1 is the night life, of London have been reproduced with an artistic splendour rarely seen on the screen before, nnd which is the background for what is the most intensely absorbing story ever writfen. As Lord Woodstock, Bert Lytell is a sportsman who never yields an inch, and is admirably supported by Marian Nixon, who is an alluring little lady in a congenial role. The box plnH.i are now open at The Bristol Tinno Company.