AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19170, 29 November 1927, Page 13

AMUSEMENTS.

, TH E TENDER HOUR." >*» A^LAUGHTER. .VERTBODrSjTHEATRE. ' -M after her wedding with Princc '**?£& Usrcia Rani ga«s once Uil ißdr ,°C.m in which is set out tho S' , \fthereath of her lover. Wallace fl»". Since this nows had come a and a passionate prince had forca her to this step that ** "'"most distasteful. It is only at £' ol Tnt that «he realises just what her »*? I,m and what it means. A hurS» hM b -f heard, and Wallace enters. 3 iW .'Li and explanations, and the W fSSS trick to which the lovers 5*5 *"'" kwtad is laid bare. .Marcia W 1.11 and brave it out, while \\aS" 1 "', i,« into the darknoss. Boris * tStol • •bribing, indignant wife con- ** M v!» refusing with . vehemence his P".' %Jm When his supplications on to insufferable sho flees for sanefo» '?". Wend Mitchell, to whoso hands # ° "ntrwted tho staging of a pngeant *P . of his marriage. There she finds i 1" whom Mitchell has rescued from l*jit«iar to drown his sowowb and for"**«?.lovers are once more united. But I* IVtkJ Baron breaks in. Mitchell •*•? the occasion and explains the ten- ** i.inde in which tho two are found by *L ihst thov are rohenrsing for the iflW ' ifhe Baron is scarcely satisfied. flirts «t !»»'• Thc 6ta S e '■' sot nud ••"z,,-nter—the two chief ones playing •ffliTM and their love. The Baron's is further kindled when *«foil»d discuss tho handsome lover on **Jrt md even mention his likeness to *•**'] 0V er of Marcin. Then things be--1 .ul« to Boris. Tho lovers fleo through •*S Boris has forestalled their ftrul by * ne ''S l " °' lanterns casting Sulk shadows Boris and Wallnco tight iSaiL Cool treacherous always, fftoon wins through a dastardly trick. • toll il locked away, and Marcia escorted uX»B»ron to pay the price for her at- £& escape- Then comos tho climax and JpMhtion— that the picture will tell to L«k» t» *» » M "• " Tho Tendßr Hour " UMibictblogly interesting drama, when the JJLeted is .always happening. In the 28pil role beautiful Billie Dove scores an Swi«»"«": , . , • ifatorti"* this is a screamingly funny ' JST"Battling Butler," featuring the Bnd--5T isUßorsble Buster Koaton. Buster Seinpin*- He falls in lovo with tho ijjlil he meets, winning her hand only ?!liapenio of swearing (hat he is "BatIrßltleTi" the light-woight champion. ButSlie Ma-eyed one—is now compellod to gsli training to defend his title. Tho Li weeks that follow aro puro misery, but JlJltii it out. In the end ho fight's, though j |ts bottle he had intendod to engage f One cannot but appreciate to tho full Xtftft" acting in this picture. His •Uitlve self-control and power of extract- ' Slle naxlmtim of fun out of a humorous JllioD, sided by tho continued attention of ''fttDseqaiouß valet, fill the story with a I'M of sldo-splitting mirth. I'Mtr the baton of Mr Albert Bidgood the Kb Orchestra plays the following proI'fii!—Overture. "Shepherd of tho Hills" ffiiiiowiky); "Andanto from the Fifth iEtMj"' (Tschalkowsky); suites, "Lyi|r (Tichaikowsky), "Prayer of the IJjjjj", (Leoni), "Mimos and Ballerinas" I jfcjfide), "Had Vou But Known" (Dnnza); [Bis, "Samson and Delilah" (SaintiW, "Thais" (Massenet), "Reminiscences lifiper'' (Myddclton), "Ths Force of Des- ; (if (Verdi); the entr'acte, "Judex" '■ was ospccially well received.