DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 10 February 1926, Page 4

DE LUXE THEATRE.

An old-timo popular song provides the thome for ' Little Annie Rooney," now screening at the De Luxe Theatre. Certainly the only part that can be said to be really liko 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 transfusion 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 Orchestra De Luxe, under the leadership of Mr. L. B. Austin, plays a fine | selection of incidental music. "THE IRON HORSE." There seems no exhausting the many interesting features in "The Iron Horse." It is claimed for the picture that rib love story^ smothers its wonderful epic quality, and yet the very sweetest of love stories follows the advance of the iron horse just as simply and surely as must some real love story have followed the real pushing of the metallic steed to the golden-spike in Utah. There are two fights in this one continuous battle with sleet, sun, and hunger. And there is not one villain, but two. One is just plain villain, and a very good one too—but the other, the twofingered Indian, the dark-skinned, Blueeyed renegade, is a dream villain out of a mastermind of romance. When one thinks over "The Iron Horse"—and it makeß you think, though the contrast of the exquisite comedy of J. Farrell Mac-; Donald, with the tragedy and beauty of history keeps you doing too much of it, one can only remember that one has seen a beautiful picture, a thrilling one. "The Iron Horse" will be presented for six matinees and evening performances, starting on Friday at the De Luxe Theatre.