LIBERTY THEATRE.
The main feature tfiia week at the Liberty Theatre is an all-talkipg comedy, "Give and Take/' starring George Sidney and Jean Hersholt. Tha cast is an extremely strong one—the two official stars bein* in fact on a par with a!) the players. The clarity of speech is most remarkable throughout—-the Jewish atmosphere which was expected, was found to be almost entirely absent. The story is as hijfhly "B* probable as anything that has yet appeared here, and its very improbability lends a certain amount of ludicrousness to the whole action. It is a tale of business amenities as rev«aled 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 ton, eoincidentally with a difficulty in meeting a bill, started the whole concern on its unstable course. The son's 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.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19669, 12 July 1929, Page 15
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