EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 6

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

A strong, lovo theme, some very pretty scencß, and an amount of good drama, combine to make "Tho Innocents of Paris," which is being screened for a short return season at Everybody's Theatre, a talkie worth seeing. It is a story of stagecraft, of a junk man who becomes a celebrated stage artist, and it is essentially a one-man play. _ The cast comprises four main artists, Sylvia Beecher, David Durand, Russell Simpson, and Maurice Chevalier, who has naturally the outstanding part to play. He commands a perfect interpretation of joy and sorrow, and is tho master of any situation. The play has not yet been written which can give Chevalier the opportunity to display his full powers, but he can always he counted on to turn tho most unpromising material into sparkling dialogue.

DAVEY LEE IN "SONNY BOY." Davey Lee is only four years old, but bo far lie has appeared with conspicuous 3uccobs opposite Al Jolson, ono of America's beat entertainers, and ho has headed his own company in his first starring production over tho ViUphono for Warner Brothers. "Sonny Boy," the bong which he and > Jolson mado famous in "Tho Singing Fool," is the title of his picture, and it will bo presented at Everybody's Theatre next week. In epite of the presence in the cast of Betty Broneon, John Murray,. Gertrude Olmstead, and that master of tragedy and comedy, Edward Everett Horto.i, Davey Lee quite dominates tho screen, and as the precocious small child who pokes an interfering finger into the domestic pies of his family and his family's friends, ho is a tremendous success. "Sonny Boy" is first and foremost a delightful comedy romance, with just a sufficiency of drama to give it stability. The dialoguo is most amusing, especially tho lines spoken by the youthful. star. It is such a long time since a. baby actor has been scon in a loading role that lovers of pictures will welcome tho return of charming and wcll-manncrcrt children on the screen. Betty Bronson and Edward Everett Horton stage a stormy romanco of their own, while John T. Murray keeps the comedy ball rolling all iho time. Tho box plans are now at The Bristol Piano Coraptiny, where seats may bo reserved.