SHORTT'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 5

SHORTT'S THEATRE.

To-day's programme at Shortt's Theatre includes one of the finest novelty stories yet screened in Wellington, "The Face on the Bar-room Floor." The 1 cast is a notable one, and includes in the leading role Henry B. Walthall, who is supported by Ruth Clifford, Walter Emerson, Frederick Sullivan, Alma Bennett, Novel M'Gregor, and several others equally prominent. The staging was directed by; Jack Ford. Wrongfully accused of the downfall of a beautiful fisher girl, an artist drowns his sorrows in drink, and during one of these orgies he paints a likeness of the girl he loves on the bar-room floor. His friends realise that he has been wrongfully accused of another's wickedness, and they search for him. Eventually he is found just as he has completed the picture, and the girl he loves, whose brother was the guilty one, helps to bring him back' to respectability. It is an interesting story, told delightfully, and with a settingwhich adds to the general ensemble. The second feature is "Good-bye, Girls," in which William Russell is the star, having with him Carmel Myers, Tom Wilson, Kate Price, Robert Klein, and other prominent artists of the silver sheet. An author imagines that he suffers from all sorts of complaints, but a doctor advises him to fall in love as a cure. He does, in most thrilling fashion, and the story is full of interest. Supporting pictures are good, and the orchestra plays a delightful programme of music.