AMUSEMENTS.
—« — EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "Breakfast at Sunrise," a clever farce, featuring Constance Talmadge, is the main attraction at Everybody's Theatre this week. The story is laid in Paris, and concerns Madeleine Watteau (Constance Talmadge), » wealthy daughter of Paris, who arrives in all her splendour at the Hotel Splendide, co-incidentally with the coming of Paul Lussan (Don Alvarado) —broke for the second time in his life. In her rooms. Madeleine telephones her fiance, the Marquis de Cerisey (Bryant Washburn), who pleads to be excused from an engagement that evening because of a headache. In another room—one of the hired guests' chambers—Pierre 'phones Loulou, a dancer, and asks her to reconsider his proposal of marriage. She laughs at the idea. That night, as she is about to dress for dinner, Madeleine overhears by radio that the Marquis has entered the hotel with a lady. Infuriated, she dresses and seeks an elevated table where she can view the proceedings. At this point, Pierre enters, and is placed at Madeleine's table. After this marriage, divorce and reconciliation follow in. rapid succession. Assisting Miss Talmadge is Don Alvarado, who makes a dashing hero, and Alice White, as Loulou, the dancing girl. " 'Frisco Sally Levy," an exceptionally funny Jewish comedy, is the supporting picture.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19259, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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