EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 9

EMPRESS THEATRE.

Magnificent snow scenes, dazzling white under the winter sun, are a brilliant setting for "Brawn of the North," featured for the first time at the Empress Theatre last night. Brawn is the nanio given to a wonderful dog (Strongheart, who has been seen in many notable films), a wolf hound, with almost human sagacity, and capacity for loving and hating. His mistress, Marion Manning, goes north to join her brother and her iiance, tak ing Brawn with her. The fiance turns coward and traitor, and later is killed by Brawn, the brother is murdered, and to the cabm of Peter Coe go Marion and her dog for shelter. Peter Coe lw lived a hermit life for years, and in his joy at hearing a-human voice his pent-up manhood breaks ■ bounds, and Marion knows fear. The woman's scorn, allied to her dependence'on him for safety, change lib bitterness and hardness, and he tends the two and makes mends with Biawn A travelling missionary finds the couple in the isolated cabin, and to save the .BirU name, Peter forces her to marry jjSn. Submission to the dominance of the man also brings love, for he proves a tender, solicitous comrade, and sacrifices everything to send her back home. Marion refuses to return, and rejoins her husband. Later Brawn's supremacy is challenged by the arrival of a baby, and hearing the call of his mates,.he joirs a wolf pack. When his beloved master and mistress are threat-*-*l. by the wolves, it is Brawn who lights to save them. Irene Rich and Lee Shumway sustain the main roles. A Christie comedy, "Son of a Sheik " "t,ai s£ re™i«gly ■ funny burlesque on Huleoff Vassehno, ' in which Neale Burns and \ ma , Daniels experience all the fun or sandstorms to order A l?" Ca k f^f an£ other fe*toes complete the bill, which is further enhanced by the playing of the Empress Orchestra of ten musicians, under the direction of Mr. M. Dixou: