DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 10

DE LUXE THEATRE.

A.story of impersonation is told in "A Thief in Paradise," now showing at the De Luxe Theatre. The settings are excellent, especially the interiors, which are. quite exceptional. 1 During the telling of the tale there aro many exciting happenings, including girls in bathing suits on horseback • playing polo, a fight with submarines, dancing in the South Sea Islands, and an aeroplane wedding. The plot tells of Phillip Jardine, wild son of ,-i wealthy man, who oversteps the mark and is sent to expiate his sins at Samoa, where he drifts towards beachcombing with Maurice Blake. Jardine is mauled by a shark and dies. His father, not knowing of the young man's death, sends him money and asks that he return to America and his home. Blake decides to impersonate the dead man, and he journeys to San Francisco, where old-man Jardino accepts him as his son and heir to the family fortunes. The position is complicated by Blake falling in love with a bishop's daughter. Eventually he confesses the impersonation, but as he has endered himself to the old man as well as to the girl, all ends happily. Included on the programme is a more than usually interesting topical Gazette, a Travelogue of Switzerland with its magnificent alpine background, and a really delightful cameo comedy. The De Luxe music is a special feature of the programme.