"THE FIFTY-FIFTY GIRL."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 21

"THE FIFTY-FIFTY GIRL."

BEBE DANIELS IN A MODERNCOMEDY. EVERYBODY'S, TO-DAY. At Everybody's Thea:rs '-his -week Bebe Daniels will appear in ''The Fiity-Fif'y Girl." When Kathleen O'Hara and Jim Donahue fell co-heirs to a goldmine, Kathleen stipulated that Jim do the cooking and the mending, and she work in the mine. Bete Eaniels makes her Kathleen an aggressively modern and competent young woman, with not a vestige of sweet helplessness or romance about her; but when the villains enter the drama, she simply downs tools and yells lustily for Jim, who is moodily cooking the dinner. "The Fifty-Fifty Girl" is funny, wise, and points a moral without moralising. And in the end this very modern young woman gets as sentimental as her Victorian grandmother. Everybody will laugh and chuckle over this picture, and if the ladies may get a little restive while seeing it, the men will like it all the more. The second picture is Edgar Wallace's "The Flying Squad." Dorothy Bartlam and John Longlen have the leads, and the bad men are lead by Wyndham Standing, Donald Calthorp, and Lawrence Ireland. It is an exhilarating drama of the police versus the powers of darkness, a lively, clever, fastmoving melodrama with crime and mystery and adventure aplenty. Also, Edgar Wallace writes a good love story, and he doss not disdain to use one in "The Flying Squad." Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged the following musical programme for the Select Orchestra:—Overture, "Orpheus" (Offenbach); suites. "Chelsea China" (Ancliffe), "Enfantine" (Lardelli), "Joyous Youth" (Coats), "Sylvan Scenes" (Fletcher); selections, "Demon" (Rubenstein), "Zampa" (Auber), "Robert the Devil" (Meyerbeet), "Hansel and Gretel" (Humperdlnck), 'Queen of the Dance" (Hosmer), "Legende" (Dvorak), "Songs of Love and Sorrow" (Hendry), "Doctor Cupid" (Wolf Ferrari), "Sicilian Vespers" (Verdi); violin solo, "On Wings of Song" (Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy). The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.