EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 11

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

"DARKENED ROOMS." Sir Philip Gibbs is the latest celebrity to sell his rights to talkie companies, and "Darkened Rooms," ivhich was published recently, now appears as an audible film. This picture will be presented at Everybody's Theatre next week. Evelyn Brent has the starring role, with Neil .Hamilton in itnmedi,ate, snppqrt. ,Xt would have been impossible''to select a nloro suitable pair to play the Gibbs characters, and as both these artistß are happily adapted to light mystery playing, their work in ''Darkened Rooms loaves' nothing to be desired. As for story offect; Sir Philip Gibbs never disappoints. Always at his best when writing of the younger generation* be' has again dealt with them in "Darkened Rooms,'.', but his theme in new, bold, and vastly effective Be haa taken, a plunge into the occult, as it is practised by bored andv fashionable London, and he has achieved some great, dramatic ,b?enes throughout the tale. Neil Hamilton, as the young man who-, decides On a .doubtful way of earning, his ' living in .post-war Leadon, is brought to ieason by his partner, Evelyn Brent, who wearies of deception and duplicity. With true feminine guiio and cunning, she beats him at his own game, and darkened rooms and darkened young lives see the light of day. . The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company.