"FLEET WING."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 6

"FLEET WING."

A ROMANCE OF ARABY. At Liberty Theatre cut week two par- j ticularly attractive pictures will be screened. ' the bill is Mwtwuig," a picture not, as its title might imply, a saga of tha West or a melodrama of the white Northwest, but a story of sheiks, eunuchs, dance girls, and arrays of picturesque tribesmen. Barry Norton and Dorothy Janis play the leads. Miss Jams making her debut in her first featured role. The story of "Fleetwing" is the story of » blooded Arab horse, three men at enmity, and a girl; it seems that it is the same the whole world orer, three men and a girl. From material that might be commonplace the director tas deftly woven a fabric of screen entertainment that is entertainment. This i« not the aver- ' age sheik story, in that no whites appear; it just concerns some young leader and the ' troublesome factors that stand between him ; and his light of love. And wten one con- ; siders that all the he»t stories have to do i with either fighting or loving since those are j the only worth while thing* in the world it is easy to recognise that "Fleetwing'' has I something solid to offer. The settings for j this romantic tale are as interesting and . as varied as one could wish. Deserts and stranije old cities, and the tents of the tribes m&ko a different sort of background; tbo j moving throngs of robed Arabs, the wonder : fa! sight the* make when sweeping down the desert like wolves on the fold—and moving in the foreground the figure ef the ' young man and the girl who is the tribe's j hostage—all this make it something intensely creditable. Second on the programme is "Blow Your Own Horn," with Warner Baxter in the lead. The hero returns to his country after serving in the Great War with a vague idea that, though without a job, money, or friends, hi« country will receive him as a hero. He ia greatly shocked when ha finds the country is scarcely interested. Bo a millionaire friend gives him a dollar and a lot of advice. and the hero boldly starts to put up a gigantic bluff. As a result he wins a:i honoured place in rich society, and the affections of a pretty girl. And he doesn't know what on earth to do. How everv- • thing develops ia too good to be revealed, but "Blow Your Own Horn" <> witty treatise on business, robbery, etc. The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piauo Company, where seats may be reserved.