EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 11

EMPRESS THEATRE.

In the programme which commenced at the Empress Theatre to-day the main feature is "Lord Jim," an adaption _of Joseph Conrad's novel, with a brilliant cast, which includes Percy Marmont, Shirley Mason, Noah Beery, and Raymond Hatton. The supporting feature is "The Bandit's Baby," starring Fred Thomson and his horse Silver King. The story of "Lord Jim" tells of how, in deserting his ship, Percy Marmont, as Jim, second mate on the Patnai failed iv the traditional ruling of the sea —"passengers first," and had thought first of himself. Trying to flee from the world, he eventually found that he was fleeing from his own conscience-^----that the word "coward" kept ringing in his ears. How he regains his lost manhood makes for many thrills in which romance is cleverly blended. Situations that are new, comedy of a high order, burlesque, and satire are all blended with the fast action of a Western tale in Fred Thomson's latest picture, "The Bandit's Baby." The difficulties of a real live "bandit," who is forced by circumstances to act as judge at a baby show in a rough Western town and who afterward is unwillingly handed a prize-winning baby to take care of is the theme of this delightful story. The supporting pictures include the latest Pathe Gazette, which has scenes of the cricket match between Australia and Leicestershire, the final of the English Soccer Cup in which the slow motion camera caught the scoring of the winning goal. Screen snapshots number three, which deals with the lives of favourite stars in Hollywood is also shown.