AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18674, 24 April 1926, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE EAGLE." RUDOLPH VALENTINO. LIBERTY THEATRE, MONDAY. Monday -will see the first screening at the Liberty Theatre o£ "The Eagle," Rudolph Valentino's latest picture, a glittering comedy-drama set in Imperial Russia. Stamped throughout with Continental gaiety and sophistication, pervaded ivith an air of danger when the Eagle offends the Empress, becoming one long thrill when there commences the battle of wits and hearts between the bandit and the beauty, this delightful story takes its place with the great achievements of the motion picture art. It has for its foundation Pushkin's famous play "Dubrovskv," and moves through courts and barracks, castles and hovels, until the invincible Eagle, his nobility of heart overcoming his two-fold love, * surrenders to the Imperial soldiers and goes to face the Czarina's pleasure. "The Eagte" is a multi-coloured epic of Russian lifp, in which the career of Dubrovsky, daring, brilliant, and tempestuous though it be, necessarily must halt before the power of Catherine, and the engaging wiles of a cold young aristocrat. Rudolph Valentino has hitherto been in the habit of getting just what he wants on the screen, often without as much as a struggle, but when as the Cossack guard, he meets Llascba, the tables are turned, and he has to be every inch an eagle before the lady consents to be swept away. Yilma Bankv, a refined artist and charming beauty, appears opposite A aleutino, and gives an excellent characterisation of her role. Tho Liberty Concert Orchestra, under Mr Ernest Jamieson, will play an appropriate musical programme, including the following numbers:—Overture, "El Capitan" (Sousa); "Ballet Russe" (Luigini); ballet music, ''Copellia" (Delibes), "La Czarina" (Ganne), "Cossack Revels" (Tschaikowsky), "Serenade" (Rachmaninoff), "Algeria" (Tschakoff); entr'-acte, "Menuet" (Padcrewski); foxtrots, "I Want You to Meet Me," "Why Leave Mo Now?" "I 'Will," "Don't Bring Lulu." The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where scats may be reserved.