AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19110, 20 September 1927, Page 13

AMUSEMENTS.

* A BASEBALL ROMANCE. ♦ RUTH ON THE SCREEN. SPAKKLIXG COMEDY AT CRYSTAL. tfhen Babe Dugan, champion of baseball ceased to chew tobacco the effect the same as when Samson was shorn of jjj Jocks. Why Babe gave up his daily "chew" ' s unfolded in a highly hilarious jouedy, " Babe Comcs Home," which heads lie bill 3t Co"*'' l '. I>ala , c e Theatre this week. lie story begins in a laundry, where one of the laundresses afiirves a note to Babe's shirt, rtbnkins nhvays sending such a dirty nrment to be laundered. Babe replies to fh-s note, and before many feet of film have Ija through the projector the baseball champion end tho winsome laundress have become personally acquainted. The sequel is, of Joune, obvious, but as in the case of all • eo od stories the course of true love does not : rtn smooth, and the projected love nest appears to be irreparably broken up when Babe is informed that he must give up chewing tobacco. ,Tlic effects are far-reaching, for Babe ceases to handle bis club—pr whatever jt is they play baseball with—with any de„ee of skill, and in the final match for club Supremacy he "lets his team down" to such m extent that defeat seems certain. At the eleventh hour, however, when all seems lost, lis weetheart rushes on to the field and injjstt'oa him chewing a plug of tobacco which ,be'i»s brought for him. The result is surprises:. ioT Babe's strength and skill are jnmidiatelj restored to liim, the match is yon by his brilliant play, and the "fade-out" sOll, thelovers re-united once more, and ererything pointing to a "happy-ever-after" • vintate. The story, it must be admitted, -is *;slender one, but what it lacks in matter is store than compensated for by the clever gunner. in which it is presented. The setjiap are full of interest, particularly the ccene* in one of America's greatest amuseB ent parks. Here the audience is treated to iome real "thrills," without any- of the attendant risks—or expense. To the sporting enthusiast the principal interest, of • course, lies in tho fact that Babe Ruth, famed lie world over as greatest of all great base : , ball players,, is secu in action. Babe is a j jnarTel on the field, but he is also quite at :Jkß6 as a Bcreen actor, and his comedy work ! 3a thii, his first, picture is delightfully entert 'taiaiag. It must not be supposed, however, j '{bit "Babe Comes Home" is purely a "ballj pne" picture. There are many other "ingles of interest in it, and the presence of j Anna Q. Nilsson in the cast is sufficient guarI .isteo that the human interest is not neglected. Tl( cast is quite a large one, and has obviI . jsaly been chosen with more than usual care. <JB those who feature in it do sterling work, their efforts result in a really clever and - exhilarating comedy. : Tie second big feature this week—and it fat big feature—is the "William Fox production, "rellovv Fingers," a tense drama based well-known aphorism, "East is East jad West is "West, and never the twdin shall wet" The story has as its background a setting in the Malayan States, and unfolds $e dramatic events which result from the ununited love of a half-caste girl for a white trader. "Yellow Fingers" is certainly a iaore than ordinarily good picture, and might tNriiiif be starred as the principal feature on. itj picture programme. ..The Symphony Orchestra, under Mr A. J. Bans, provides a capital musical programme, tiuch adds materially to the enjoyment of ' tie entertainment as a whole. ~i,Tho same programme is scheduled for pre?BUtation all this week.