LIBERTY THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20199, 30 March 1931, Page 8

LIBERTY THEATRE.

"DUMBBELLS IN ERMINE** AND "THE LOVE RACKET." < Comedy , arid drama comprise the fare* at the, -Liberty Theatre . this -week. The .first picture, /'Dumbbells ' in Ermine," is an amusing film dealing with the love affairs of. a smart young American woman, who 1b wooed by two men, * one a prize fighter and - the other, a pious social • reformer, whose role gives him the chance, which he is. quick to seize, of visiting notorious night clubs, ostensibly to point out to wayward girls the error of their ways, but actually because he liked being present at Buch places. This iB the type of man her mother has selected as the girl's future husband, but her plans are somewhat upset by the appearance of the stalwart boxer, who literally sweeps the girl off her feet until his rival denounces him as a visitor to a club which has just, been raided. Fortunately for him, he has made a good impression on ihe girl's grandmother, who arranges that the young women involved, in the raid should come to the house, there to he'lectured by the good man and warned of the dangers' besetting their sinful footsteps. a Unfortunately, for the reformer's intentions, the girls recognise him, and' show him up as the hypocrite he is. v At this point the boxer reappears, ind, of course, is able to convince the. girl that the man she really wants is himself. The leading parts in the picture are ' taken ' by Robert' Armstrong, Barbara Kent, Beryl Mercer, and Claude Gillingwater. Dorothy Mackaill takes the leading 'role in "The Love Backet," a thrilling drama, in which a woman in order to get the jury, of which she is a member, to'bring in an acquittal of a> girl charged with ; the murder of her■ betrayer, confesses to them that she herself, was a victim of his villainy. The; situation is the more tense in that the girl's sweetheart is also serving on the jury. She fears that in stating her position she will lose his regard, but at the same time must make the sacrifice if the a'ccußed girl is. to be saved from the electric chair. However, her lover' is filled with admiration at her noble action, and tells her so, the play thus ending happily.