EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 19

EMPRESS THEATRE.

Two pictures distinctly different in theme are on the current change at the Empress Theatre. The problem of the childless wife who criticises the unmarried mother is dealt vith in "Drusilla With a Million"; in this Mary Carr is east as a charity inmate of a home for aged ladies, who suddenly inherits £1,----000,000. She spends the million in converting her home into a refuge for unwanted babies, thereby winning tne disapproval of the silk-clad neighbours who fondle yapping toy dogs in preference to handling babies. The arrest of a young girl who has left her baby offers a chance for a scheming lawyer to make a case against Drusilla, and there is a tense court scene wherein the distracted young mother refuses to divulge the name of her husband. The heir to the million' has been cut off by his father after a cafe scene, and has married Sally, an orphan, who makes a man of him. The lawyer's daughter covets the family fortune, and it is through her that the young couple are separated. Priscilla Bonner and Kennetfi Harlan, enact the. romantic roles, while Mary Carr's work is exceptional. In "The Boy Friend," Marceline Day, Johnny Harron, Ward Crane, and Gertrude Astor present a simple little tale of a smalltown girl who has had her head turned by a New Yorker and who is prevented by her small-town lover from going to the city with the immaculate visitor. The Our' Gang kiddies are featured in an amusing comedy, and the supporting programme ia ideal..