LIBERTY THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 7

LIBERTY THEATRE.

The main feature tnk week at the Liberty Theatre ia an ali-talkir-g comedy, "Give and Take," starring Georgo Sidney and Jean Hersholt, The cast, is an extremelv strong one—the two official stars being in fact on a par with all the players. Th» clarity of speech is most remarkable throughout—the Jewish atmosphere which was expected, was found to be almost entirely absent. The story is as highly improbable as anything that has yet appeared here, and its very improbability lends a certain amount o£ ludicrousness to the whole action. It is a tale of business amenities as revealed by a 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, eoincidentally with a difficulty in meeting a bill, started the whole concern on its unstable course. The scheme was one for "Industrial Democracy," and was obviously the product of a University Extension Course. The blind love of the proprietor for his son 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.