AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19459, 5 November 1928, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

« TELLING THE WORLD."

NEWSPAPERS, AND THE CHINA WAR.

GREAT FABE AT THE CRYSTAL. Not for very many months has tho management of the Crystal Palace Theatre had the opportunity of presenting ducu an allround excellent programme as it does this week. Heading tho bill is young Billy Haines in "Telling the World," and the second big picture, "Honour Bound," presents Estelle Taylor and George O'Brien in more dramatic tare Tho usual uiimber of gazettes ami ncwsreels, with a short comedy, ■and the musical accompaniment of Mr liunz's Symphony Orchestra should ensure a splendid evening's amusement. "Telling the World" is that will-o'-the-wisp, a good picture. It has a dandy little story, young Haines to put pep and smartness into it, and it keeps on the move from the m&ment Don Davis's (Haines's) papa disinherits him "Tor not having enough energy, till the young man lands in modern China, dowr. among the warring ..yellow men, to rescue tho lady of his heart, who, with her company of players, is cast into a Chinese prison by a wicked governor. But to the tale. Upon the young man's being ca3t forth from his home by paternal ire, his mttltitudious "cheek" lands hira as a reporter on a newspaper. Eis overbearing freshness alienates liim from his fellowsoriijt'S, and he gives buck-chat to the news editor, a thing that simply isn't done The rffico decide to leach him a lesson. A murder in it cabaret is fabricated, and the cheeky one is tent to "do" it. "But luck tvp.s pn his side. Arriving at tho cabaret, and rapidly falling in lov* with one of tho performers, murder is dene. Tho police make many arrests: everything goes topsyturvcy, and tho cub reporter is given the credit for finding the criminal, and .scoops the story. The lovely lady, to get to the more romantic side, scorns his rapid advances, and gees to China. The amazing young man turns down the job of Paris correspondent, and follows her to the scene of so much adventure and melodrama, and ho finds a great deal more adventure and melodrama beforo he finds tho lady. How he eventually bluffs the entire National or Car.tonesj or Northern, or whatever it is, army, and forces a Chineso operator to tap the" new 3 of the girl's kidnapping to the whole world, and thu3 obtain relief, forms tho material for a perfectly thrilling and clever story. It is impossible to give an adequate description of the humour, the melodrama, tho abundance of the action of "Telling the World." It strikes a new nf;to from the start, and not once does it disappoint its audience by sliding into tne rut of conventionality or the obvious. William Haine.3 is a vastly refreshing young person, both on his paper and in China. Polly Jloran plays a landlady, who is, to quote Stephen Leacock, a long, angular figure- that cannot be described but is equal to anything Anita Page, a noweomer, and very attractive, is the girl. We'll tell the world that this picture is a picture worth seeing. "Honour Bound" is dramatic, with but a negligible amount of humour. But it is not heavy, having for its interesting theme'the lengths to which an unscrupulous woman will go to obtain the attachment of tho man who happens at tho moment to interest her. In this essentially vivid role Estelle Taylor gives an excellent ehowin?, and George O'Brien is good likewise. The musical programme played by the Symphony Orchestra is a:' follows:—Overture, "Ravmondj (Thomas), "Eroica" (Beethoven), "Scherzo" (Tschaikowsky), "Sins and Prayers" (Mozart), "Bcatrico and Benedict" (Berlioz), "The Diamond" (Staz), "Supplication" (Bayncs), "Just a Little Lady" (Merrin), and "Trombone Rag" (Kluckmann).' Box p'ans are at The Bristol Piano. Company, where scats may bo reserved.