REGENT THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE.

"ONLY THE BRAVE.* A dallshtftil programme - ha* been secured for presentation st the Regent Theatre next week. With the starring feature, "Only the Brave," there are "The Glow Worn,*' that fascinating melody made into a song cartoon; a dramatic sketch entitled "Typical Types," • talking news of the world, and an operatic solo by Tito Schipa, the Italian tenor, as well as other numbers, musical or dramatic.

"Only the Brave" is an original story for the screen, played by a company headed by Mary Brian, Gary Cooper, and Philip Holmes, three young types who are seen to advantage in this picturesque and gallant romance of love and war in the State of Virginia daring the Civil War. Miss Mary Brian is cast as a lady of Virginia who defies her caste and throws in her lot with a Northern spy. Gary Cooper creates an even greater disturbance by seeking a quixotic death at every turn, for all the belles of the South could not compensate for the treachery of his false Northern love. But Mary Brian had no use for the lanky spy dead; so she plots to save him from her Confederate compatriots, and also plots to win his adamant heart. She does both, for she is disarmingly subtle and demure, and Gary Cooper is but a man. "Only the Brave" is a finely-tempered romance of fair women and brave men, is treated for the screen with admirable spirit and feeling, is staged against enchanting backgrounds, is beautifully acted, the lines spoken with soft Southern speech. Altogether it is a most fascinating screen play. The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company.