BE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 13

BE LUXE THEATRE.

Although war has its horrors and its Borrows, fortunately it also has its humours, which, to some extent at least, helped to balance the ledger of the story. SPhere have been humorous pictures of the ynr, each dealing with some particular phase. One has told of the life of an airman, another of the driver of a tank, while yet another has dealt with the actual life of the soldier in the trenches of Flanders, but it has been left for "Behind the Front," screened last evening at the De Luxe Theatre for the first time, to tell of the real humours that beset the path of th« soldier on active service. Those who W«re not privileged to take even a minor part in the Great War cannot realise that the soldier could rise to heights of joybusness under the appalling conditions in which he was living at the time, but it was this ability to make the best of everything and to see humour in a situation that under other conditions would have appeared to be tragic, that helped him through. In "Behind the Front" no actual fighting is seen, though the effects of the war are Been on every hand, but it is a story of those sent into billets from the fighting line, men who may be taking their last pleasure on earth and who make the most of the opportunity. The "heroes" of'the picture are two American soldiers, one who In private life was a detective and the other s crook, and both adore a Red Cross worker, a girl who was responsible in the first case for their enlistment. Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton make the mo»t of the two chief characters, and Mary Brian is a delightful worker for the cause of humanity behind the lines. The Gazette is right up to the minute, and includss views of Alan Cobham's arrival at Bydner »t the end of his world flight. whil« there are also some excellent views ©f the progress of the work on Sydney's big harbour bridge at Milsbn's Point. Another picture that cannot help but appeal to the lover of athletics is that dealing with the life of Jack Hobbs, the Surrey cricket marvel. Especially good are the •low-motion, viewi of Hobbs in action (bowing some of his characteristic strokes. Th« musical programme, arranged by Miss Brren, includes a musical burlesque, "Waßtter v. Verdi," as the overture, and GtfcrU Pierre's "March of the Tin Soldiem" as the entr'acte, while the incidental music has been carefully chosen.