"ADORATION."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 20 May 1929, Page 7

"ADORATION."

BILL IE DOVE IN RUSSIAN ROMANCE. ' EVERYBODY'S, TO-DAY. Beautiful Billie Dove, the second Oorinne Griffith Of the screen, plays the leading role la "Adoration," the main picture at Everybody's Theatre this week. Antonio Moreno plays opposite her. The picture is based on a very favourite theme for modern authors, the Russian Revolution, which is always sufficiently modern to be interesting, and sufficiently red, terrific, and dramatic to be picturesque. In this romance Miss Dove plays a princess of the old regime, and Moreno is her husband, the prince. Thus, the picture opens with the principals married, and does not, as so many films do, end on a note of wedding peals. It opens with elegance and richness. But with the coming of the Revolution, the Prince and Princess Orloff find themselves engulfed in the maelstrom, and in a matrimonial maelstrom as well. To Paris, as poor and embittered refugees they go, where the prince becomes a waiter in a cafe, and the princess a mannequin in daytime and a grisette at night. How happiness comes once more to this buffeted pair forms the story of "Adoration.*'

The supporting picture, "Excess Baggage" features William Haines and Josephine Dunn. William Haines is remembered as a comedian with a cheeky complex, but in "Excess Baggage" he blossoms out as something near a dramatic actor with a flair for decided pathos. Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged the following attractive programme for the Select Orchestra:—Overture, "If I Were Kins;" (Auber) ; symphonies. "New World" (Dvorak), "Fifth" (Tschaikowrky), suites, "Rustic Revels" (Fletcher), "Scenes Alsaciennes" (Massenet), "Prosperine" (Saint-Saens); selections,, "Picciniana" (Mehden), "Memories of Brahms" (Urbach), "Russian Airs" (Tobani), "Echoes of the "Vnlsra" (Lake); "Before Her Picture" (Hnbay), "Marche Slave" (Tschaikowsky). "Tartar Song and Dance" (Dubensky) ; waits, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (Strauss); entr'acte, "Rosary" (Nevin). The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.