THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19725, 16 September 1929, Page 14

THEATRE ROYAL.

4iiAa-.iw»*v Mi'.mi. •»* <■ lo.ui< )>re- •> r.* -tl at ib* Thaauc Ko»a! »» a "talkie," • a ,t stai.riaul h,v »lui-h ill.- new ■ vfi'l vtj r,Jgtut tor »oiu# time . .<>..• . ir.<l th* 'i'.iri litii a o«» ,t wonld bat* l.cen a mndmark •wo in %h«u dit.vn of pn-turw irerftetioil,'hilt tk fhr of masterly photoi u>t • j J iho (.»• rft• » of the Kouud m-f>-n|ioii -it ptcivitiM «Hal tauM be quite a • experience lor tu >uy pewple, although the • Ik:, • ' li •.< •• l>et!a in th- I i»y f»r non.e Tb- Minting, talking, and other-offsets I■ ■■■»«« • -aire delight, tiud t) e name of broad--I'Ci-uin-w a reality. Around ■ the i it! ■"!. * . li-' fivf-, ar.l 11( iuvi, of tw <> t i> »(■(«« a play of 'r»'iiurk«l>V tutere ' nil.J.l •..••n. lii'u-. ncenes »•( (Iranian • in- • "lil.v, Olln-t Willi lloliglltflil ■ ' < 'll •• of Ihu features of tu* SvUule thing in the fact thai tlta audience f •<'!», ,»« <- : h 'to- lecitimate mage, that It is pll s and i .«». • 1 of the parforiß.inca, and thi <• allty o.' i t it.. * vjieaku for the ■ «•( ihii production. Kact-ita?« Hie • m.t>eeu eApliiited in >ousr. j»!a*. and Aimr-| ■ a.I it. i>«rliaps Ihe beat united of all 1 . •<innn,. i'i,ir drama. Quite often " . i.iii»diaa who real'** iin.j.lr n>»r with «tirm Mkgagwd in his nailing. !< a t -.itKtliirti in r-»t lift, a tu! t!a» u tiie theme > ! .»*! "'The llruadway carries on i trio.ruilh.jtnE. *i l Throughout the film t .n>. i haunting il.vio- .xuig InMrn-j the »ar:e »ji the j'ict' t>, aixl it tnkea it* part in • ami aofWHv. !«vr .unl hate. In 'he leadingre'* 'Cti«rl*» King diai-laya au appealing man au<t c"«d ek'rtitioti. ■ and almost cverv • ".-(j »jH,k«in HI V ni>'Ribc'r.'« at tile caxt ivouita ■ t -with unfailing limy nr.! jionctratlan I- (he n.mp—tri. Arthnr i'rocd »nd Vm-io li..rh ltio-.n, mti«t f> tl>« credit for a tine "■ . mi' n-ort. [ f| • of thm big pieiurr ar* hw»rd »nd ».-'n William O'Neal, a leimr. m • M.olita." "l»ifoa," *»d "t'otil," #n4 ' Tfce »i. e\ «-f'rr'l' ri»»!c in • ''Soif," Th# '.•«ip«l Tram," and • •'i'm in Lot# Oeorgo lij'ons, the pingit>g harpist, H'»»«nu lour guod aainHera. and • negrn aong'"'l •'•li »•«.> a Pnth» ,V<idi-> Reriev, • pie.ie of *e«aeape make 119' an enterlaiutiig of "altorU."