"ON YOUR TOES."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19343, 22 June 1928, Page 14

"ON YOUR TOES."

REGINALD DENNY BACK AGAIN. LIBERTY THEATRE, MONDAY. The popular and breezy Reginald Denny returns with "On Your Toes," his most recent effort before the camera. Thero is prize-fighting cheerfully mixed up with fancy dancing, Denny shining equally as a prizefighter and a polite and elegant teacher of dancing. In short, in the first part of the story ho is cast as the "sissy" type, and later blossoms forth as a he-man of the most noxious variety. But in either rolo, he is a prize comedian, a real humorist, and an actor with a craze for speed. "On Your Toes" will bo the main featuro at Liberty Theatre next week.. Elliott Berosford, one of Denny's professional aliases, is a. gentleman of' Virginia, who conducts a dancing academy. Tho comedian's conductorship is a gorgeous bit'of farce, something that.will drive those blues away. Admirers of tho English actor will recollect his enforced impersonation of a bishop in "What Happened to Jones," and the screamingly funny portrait he drew, but the essentially masculine Donny as a dancing teacher is olio of the drollest things seen on the screen. But eventually lie discovers that his father was a champion boxer, and he is covered with shame and confusion. He invosts in a pair of gloves, a manager, and denounces Shakespeare as a dead 'un. Ho gets on to the front page; he piques the interest of a pretty girl; he tells some thumping lies to hiR grandma, who still thinks him a (lancer. Indeed, he does so many things, and all of them so amusing, that it would' be a herculean task to try to enumerate them. Tho story is .straight, and has no trimmings on it, but. the star sees to it that the action is plentifully adorned with gags and stunts that liven things up, nnd keep the tale up to programme length. The titles are witty; there are as many thrills in one reel as in a fair-sized Western; there is even a love interest, in the person of Barbara Worth, who prefers men to tho other sort. "On Your Toes" is the most entertaining picturo Reginald Denny has yet made, and that is saying a lot. It has speed, and thrills, and that brand of comedy that only Denny can supply; it has a plot of strongth nnd of some originality, and it has an excellent supporting cast for the star. Mary Carr plays the grnndmammn with much spirit, nnd Hayden Stephenson is a good screen Rickard. Tho box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.