LIBERTY THEATRE TALKIES

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 7

LIBERTY THEATRE TALKIES

" CONQUEST."

ALL-TALKING TBIUMPH. Liberty Theatre Talkie* are to be improved in reproduction by the installation of a new British equipment, the Vox Humana Audiphcne. The first picture to be screened is "Conquest,'' which m from the Taylor novel, "A Candle in the Wind." ifor excellence of speech, there has not been a talking picture quite the equal of "Conquest." H. B. Warner, a veteran of the stage, and an actor and speaker of pronounced ability, and Lois Wilson, who enunciates her lines precisely, have important partß which call foi some good linesIt is the story of two aviators who, when. the picture opens, are battling in a trimotored monoplane towards the South Pole; three other people are listening in to the progress of the flight; then the radio splat ters and shrieks, a few disjointed words come through—"flames . . . tail spin . . . crash . . . " and there is silence. It is a very modern story, none will deny that, with its aeroplanes and polar flightß and stragglings back to civilisation and the organisation of search parties. And it effect* a most unexpected climax which both in speech and action, is a fitting denouement to so worthy a picture. The box plans for this season open at The Bristol Piano Company to-morrow morning.