AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19727, 18 September 1929, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

LIBERTY THEATRE. ♦< MASQUERADE." A-UL-TALKIE OPENS TO-NIGHT. The all-talking Pot Movietone comedy, "Masquerade," which opens at Liberty Theatre to-night, can be confidently recommended to the theatre-going public as a prince of comedies. J. Farrell McDonald, last seen here in "Four Devils," speaks with the rest of the cast in this picture, a-d the other principal roles are discharged by Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, and Alan Birmingham. An interesting point about this film is that, for the first time since the inception of the talking screen, one of the players is engaged in a dual role. Alan Birmingham plays hiR own double in "Masquerade," and subtly changes the tones of the voice of the wealthy young man to fit in with the personality of his double, a cheerful and energetic young burglar. It it impossible to category all the good things that are in this picture. It starts off with a fine burst of speed, and maintains that standard throughout. J. Farrell McDonald, as a police sergeant, is just himself, very merry and pompous, and Leila Hyams, who is one of the best talking actresses on the screen, has a small part, which she plays charmingly. The story is from ' 'The Brasß. Bowl," by that popular author, Louis Josepil Vance. During the course of "Masquerade" Frank Richardson sings "Anything to Hold Your Baby," which was written by Conrad and Gottler, who were responsible for the beautiful music of the Fox Follies of 1929. In addition to this, in the safe scene, the orchestra plays selections from the Fox Follies. The programme of short supporting subbrilliant ' Spaniard, in her operatic and Casjects will include some particularly good features. Fox News of the World, a talkie comedy entitled "Bath Between," the Kentucky Jubilee Singers will be heard and, seen in their melodious plantation melodies, accompanied with mandolin and guitar, and perhaps the best item on this part of the bill, the appearance of Raquel Meller, the brilliant Spaniard, in her operatic and Castilian folk-songs, "The Wife of the Toreador", and "The Song of Motherhobd." In the World's News David Lloyd George,; the English Liberal leader, gives a fine speech, and Clark and McCullough star in the comedy. It is possible to book now for "Masquerade" at The Bristol Piano Company.