DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 3

DE LUXE THEATRE.

The programme screening this week at the De Luxe Theatre, is headed by a fine racing story, "Kings of the Turf." It; is a delightful tale of two generations. In the first portion is told the history of Virginia's Future, a wellbred racing filly, who is the property of Roger Beaumont. The latter lost vast sums in betting, and finally he bet the remnant of his fortune on Virginia's Future in. her first race. She did her best to justify her master's confidence, but fell and broke her leg just when the race seemed won. Beaumont was ruined, and disappeared. The crippled filly soon fell upon evil times, ultimately passing into, the hands of a peddler, who treated her brutally. Not until her daughter, Confederacy, grew up and restored the family fortunes by winning one of the most thrilling races ever screened, was she redeemed from bondage and returned to her beloved blue grass pastures. A unique side of the film is that the story is told by the racehorse, the "humans" in the picture being but part of the setting. One of the most beautiful women of the screen, Gertrude Astor, is starred, and other leading players are Henry Walthall, J. Farrell Macponald, Malcolm Waite, and Winston Miller. The programme includes a good comedy and gazette, and under Mr. L. D. Austin the De Luxe Orchestra plays delightful pieces of incidental music.

"LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY." Commencing next Friday at the De Luxe Theatre, Mary Pickford will be Beeßll>'.her.latest and greatest success entitled "Little Annie Rooney." She plays the part of the saucy mischievous imp who is beloved by millions throughout the world. Mary Pickford has forsaken the ruffled laces and bejewelled gowns of costume plays, and has returned to a type of role that has made her world-famous. The story is one of the slums of New York, an epic of those crowded, musty thoroughfares on' the East Side, where men, women, and children in motley array swarm like ants. Little Atrnie is leader of a gang of boys which continually get into battles with a rival gang. While still a child Annie is plunged into a maelstrom of dramatic incidents that first sober the impulsive girl, then bring out the heroic qualities so often found in children of the slums. The supporting programme will be gigantic, while a special musical programme has been arranged by Mr. L. D. Austin. ' A matinee will be held on Saturday at 2:30. The plans are now open at The. Bristol, Aitken's Book Arcade, or ring the theatre.

'The Iron Horse," a spectacular Wil T ham Fox production, commences a week's heason at the De Luxe Theatre on 12th February. It took three years to bring to completion. The members of the cast, which numbered ' approximately 7000, lived through the rigorous months on the Nevada Desert; on the Sierra Range in tents and lean-to shacks, enduring the same hardships as far as the elements were concerned as those experienced by the trans-Continental pioneers "they portrayed. '! Two complete towns were built in a setting as picturesque as that which surrounded old Denton at the end of the track in the days when Eastern newspapers described the settlement as, "hell on wheels." Three tribes of Indians were used in the picture—Cheyennes, Sioux, and Pawnees.