AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 21 July 1930, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

LIBERTY THEATRE. "UNDERTOW." Only very rarely does one find, in talklei, a picture innocent of theme, song, chorus, and night-club background. When a picture divested of these doubtful attractions does come along, however, it is invariably a good picture, and as such is welcomed by a critical public. Such a picture is "Undertow," the principal attraction at Liberty Theatre this weok. It is the only featurelength picture on the programme, and it is preceded by a miscellaneous selection of short talking, musical, vocal, and dancing specialties. "Undertow" was specially written for the talking screen, and Miss Mary Nolan was selected to play the role o£ Sally, the girl in the play, who, leaves the allurements of the world behind to become the wife of a lighthouse-keeper. The person who forms the third side of the t'riangle is Robert Ellis, who dangles before the weary wife's eyes all the glitter of the world beyond the lighthouse. The drama is intensified "when the husband goes temporarily blind, and is unable to see his wife's perfidy. It is a story that might very easily become heavy and colourless, but as it happens the picture is preserved on a very high plane of what amounts almost to romance, certainly very concentrated action. No praise is too great for the work of Mary Nolan in the lead, wboße acting is all the more creditable when one takes into account the fact that she has been accustomed to light comedy. She brings decided beauty and brains to her role of Sally. John Mack Brown has the part of her husband, a passive character, who is (he butt for all the emotional storms which beat round their secluded existence. "Undertow" is a fine study of modern woman. The bo* plans are at The Bristol Piano Company.