EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 9

EMPRESS THEATRE.

Jazz, and its hypothetical dangers, f™ discussed by a fond parent in Wandering Daughters," the chief attraction at the Empress Theatre. Charles Horton is distinctly of the opinion that nia daughter Geraldine has to be found a husband, not that she shall exercise the right of natural selection, and to guard against accidents he places jazzing on his own index expurgatorius. Geraldine has a mate, Bessie Bowden, whose father is not so discriminating, and she is soon allured by all the excitement of jazz ad libitum. Austin Trull, a male vamp, later appears on the scene, and, along with much jazzing, enjoyed surreptitiously as well as with the fullest liberty, there is also a great amount of heart-searching, as well as heart-aching, for the darts of Cupid are flying about in all directions. There are many surprising situations, but in the end all goes well, there are no jilted lovers contemplating an untimely and lonely end, and the wedding bells ring joyously. An all-star cast includes Marguerite de la Motte, Marjorie Daw, Noah Berry, and Princess_ Vlademar Volkousky, who took .to motion pictures after escaping from the horrors of the Bolshevik regime in Russia. The supporting pictures on the programme are excellent, and the Empress Orchestra of fourteen instrumentalists supplies delightful music; A variety attraction is a novelty step-dance by little Billie Murphy.