LIBERTY THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 10 July 1929, Page 8

LIBERTY THEATRE.

j TTi*. mam feature this week at the Liberty Theatra is an all-talking comedy, ''Give and Take,' starring George Sidney and Jean Hersholt. The cast is an extremely strong one—the two official Mars being in fact on a par with all the players. Tb.9 clarity of speech is most remarkable throughout--the Jewish atmosphere which "was expected, H3s found to be almost entirely absent. The Etory it a; highly improbable as anything that hns yet .ippeared here, and its very improbability lends a. certain amount of ludicrousness to the whole action. It is a tale of business amenities as revealed by » few months spent in a small American cannery. This cannery is in succession one man's property, community property, no one's property, and in the end rests peacefully in the bosom of a fruit merger. The return of the original proprietor's son, coincidentally -with a difficulty in meeting a bill, started the whole concern on its unstable course. The son's scheme was one for "Industrial I>emoeracy,'' and was obviously the product of a University Extension Course. The blind love of the proprietor for his eon and for his foreman, which is most artistically conveyed, enabled this scheme to take effect, and the result is comedy of the highest order. George Lewis, of "Collegians" fame, is found to have an attractive voice. The short films comprising the first half of the programme include a most impressive record of the Armistice Day C 1028) services a* the Cenotaph, London. His Majesty tho King is present, and the film is of interest on that account, for it, will be rpmemberod that his illness began only a few days afterwards. The ceremony took place in heavy rain. Two very good thorfc comedies and two vaudeville turns are also shown. It • need hardly be added that throughout the programme the synchronisation is quite! perfect.