QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 10

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

The story of a flapper from the mo- I ther's angle is the crux of "The City Thai, Never Sleeps." a Paramount production screened on Saturday evening to a capacity house at the Queen's Theatre. It 'is an adaptation of the novel "Mother O'Day," by Le Roy Scott, and the film version loses nothing of the poignant and tender story of the book "Mother O'Day," after her husband has been killed in defence of their daughter, who runs a Bowery Cafe. She decides that it is no place - for her baby child, and arranges for her adoption by a soc-ially-accepted widow. Years pass, and .with prohibition the Bowery saloon becomes a gay modem cabaret. The girl becomes engaged to a man whom Mother O'Day looks upon as an unscrupulous fortune hunter. To save her child without rovealiug her identity Mother O'Day. vamps the would-be lover, and Cliff Kelly, a young reporter, investigates the fellow's record through police channels. Both schemes succeed. The climax comes swift and sensational. There are thrills galore in the shooting scene, and the cud is a fitting termination to a great picture. The supports to Ciie main picture include an interesting film, showing Hawkesbury College, Australia, and a sparkling comedy entitled -The Hayseed."