DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 9 February 1926, Page 2

DE LUXE THEATRE.

An old-timo popular sonjr provides the theme for 'Little Annie Ttooney," now screening at the De Luxe Theatre. Certainly the only part that can be aaid to be really like the song is the title: but the tale is entirely charming. Mary Pickford, as Little Annie Rooney, takes up again the Btyle of role that made her famous in the past—that of a tomboy. As the leader, of a gang in the crowded streets of New York, she helps to carry on a vendetta against a rival gang. She proves her grit by offering herself for a blood trausfusion operation to save the life of her sweetheart, who was injured during a' fight between the two factions. Eventually, however, peace is made between the two contending parties, and all ends well. The Orcjiestrif De ,Luxe, under the leadership of Mr. L. D. Austin, plays a fina selection of incidental music. "THE IRON HORSE/

When "The Iron Howe" graces the screen at the De Luxe Theatre on Friday next at 2.30, and thereafter is presented daily at matinees and evening performances, audiences will have witnessed during its limited run of one week, a picture which, according to the traditions of the ii)m studios, is a stupendous undertaking, and one of the most romantic and stirring events of the history of America. Numerous histories of the building of the new west, telling of the first continental railroad, record incidents of that achievement which have been faithfully re-enacted for the screen in "The .Iron Horse." As an instance, there is a detailed record in "New Colorado," by Hayes, of an attempt by Indians to lasso a* train.' The incident is shown in the picture as clearly as it occurred. "The grader; and track layers often had to fight their way and there is a tradition current of an attempt to stop an express train," wrote Hayes.' "It is understood that a lariat wjs stretched across the track, breast-high; and held by some thirty braves on each side." John Ford, the director, follows actual history in the picture, which has been endorsed by both Press and public. "The Iron Horse" essay, for children under 16, for which a prize of two guineas is to 'be awarded, should arouse considerable interest.