AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19804, 17 December 1929, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

P«THE WHEEL OF LIFE."

& HOLLYWOOD PHILOSOPHY. LIBERTY theatre. **JMI life Is allusion." Areond this sue•hie* philosophy this week's picture at the iliberty Theatre is woven, and Richard Dix. #rstwh:le star of the "young America" type of picture, is given the difficult task of demonstrating it However iilusionary ex is.#nc* may be, Esther Ralston s particular t.P® of beaury is enough, and when a white ird a *-oman look at each oiner in tbe dssk of a Tibetan monastery, and when the'- - have but a short time to live— Hollywood can only present the inevitable conclusion. "The Wheel of Life" is reminiscent of "The Black Watch. and although it might not be quite such a good picture it is a distinct improvement on the effervescence of a certain other type of production. It is refreshing to And that there are other themes, ai-d other methods of (Riehsrd Dix) is an officer *hose attractive demeanour hides a kingnlariv honourable personal, t... Kutn liaemn f Esther Ralston) is the colonel » wife and her still more attractive demeanour hides a rather less scrupulous personality. They meet in London, and fall in lo*efll,.v m e».r -i~ai*i l.nt in Inoia. and the colonel is" present. Euth would fling discretion to the w,i.df. Vat Yenllat >S »ade of sterner stuff. He announces that he : , ~ r ' ir ' g to applv for a transfer to another det3 '" meet 'and amidst execration from his Sk h- departs to the hills, -'here he Is likel v to be placed on act;\e fertile. In due course the active service arrive.. ■nd Yeullat takes a detachment of men to Save a party of white people » tared into a remote district. They _ be xieeed in a monastery, and are beset by Wof disloyal hillmen. Yenllafs men sue reed in breaking through and lt ]® stronghold, however, although the effort is i»*lly of little avail, as it appears that it wU not be possible to break out again Y enlist expresses unhappy surprise when he L2" that the errant Ruth is * member of e L Hf r € E3& the eonc'u'ion would be foolish, as, -via in -no wav unusual *•- can orw/ t include a sound film of .JTcC Sew'south Wales match. "Schubert's Insp.rat.^ j varietv of American comedy items. Particularly noteworthy is a U.F.A. produc"Rustle Romance, the of this Nature study being "™" k^ b ' e s , pi#no Box plans are open at The Mrisioi Company.