LIBERTY THEATRE.
"Convoy," the main pictorial attraction at tlio Liberty Theatre this week, tells the story o! a girl who stayed at home. and yet accomplished her part in the war in a manner requiring more stoicism and more heroism than that shown by the men who enlisted. "They also servo ■who only stand and wait" is tho phrase that comes unconsciously to the mind, as her struggle, mental rather than phy.w;i!, and therefore the mora acute, is unfolded. Her beauty leads to the infatuation o£ a German emissary in New York, whoso work is to keep his country's undcr-watcr vessels informed of troopship departures for Luglana and France. On her is thrust tho Judas task of trapping the spy, and sccrcey has, ol necessity, to bo observed. The treatment of "The Auctioneer is admirable, so far as its sentimentally-humorous themo goes. This is typically American film fare, with a successful Jewish pawnbroker as leading chnractnr nnd lu o o {Treat climax in his life as the foundation for a pleasingly happy, yet sufficiently pathe tin story. The scene is I' lP J\ rw X , Ghetto, where Samuel Levi plies lr,s ancient trade in pledges.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 17
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