EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 123, 28 May 1927, Page 14

EMPRESS THEATRE.

1 : Ancient and modern are cunningly blended in the enrrerit- programme at the popular ;Empresi Theatre, where a film adaptaO'4i^ of •Sip?; Rider Haggard's wejl-knpjjrn IT J«io(T. .'ol ° reincarnation, ."She," is being -?rtjqiiirn, along < with an up-to-tho-minute eomedy'drama,- "Romance Road." In the ,a«&tfpietttt»'-.Betty^Blythe: i;is *superb{ as ,ditasrefh^ >th ye Simmbrtari'tiUeen /iwho; -waits .jjiftwnl;two :■ thousand •years,,' Cfbt,:- ageless Aihe««ty, for/tKe'descendant of;her beloVed 'flKillikr»t«s, whom she killed? in a fit of \t«eoHJ«d: jealousy. ."She'^is^aj woman,of ;-WW»d«rful charm, as the; Englishman, who ■^OTt-fqf:-a.^h>rd;t:woiy.;discoy-■?-0A- The Englishman/is lo.yed-byitiJ^iiaiaie, ; ■ :fci»: the 1 fcinipj* beauty: of ; the "girl M -^p . watch for the-' ex6tic,:jcharmiof,-!Sho,i»nd ■ younglyincey^followsittie lwoiijaii jpf imyist«ty: whtre sh'ei.beclsons; 1 The-SertihgsViai;e on a - stupendous;; scale, and. hthe - etftiH to be ' commended:-for'its ■splendid /work; Carlylei Biac^«reU n^ssthfe rble^ of au:Englishman seeking the, immortal'queen : ii her Afrie^rijVc«i«c^isbß;V,Mary'.Odette j»^wjnsome as TJstane,, and the.rest of ■ |B^^c««tiii .well-chosgni liTMr«.l^.irig»,;i»re ■tificommonly beautifuL ■ jftaymoiii: M.'Kee •ad ■M«riorie.yM«adpws, art- cb^starrefl; in "Romance Road," the taferof-aii. Amte can soldier')' loye'for-a'rich^girl,- a,nd 'Jid\|r' the tame: rich girl ;decidesstp;svin the- boy, -, for;herself. .-It:-, is' a^.charmiiig'little' I6ye tale, sweetly told, with a climax too good to give away." An additional attraction is "^th* playing of Kamo, described as -:the faatett exponent of the' banjo-mandolin in the world;.whpi/hasjbeen nraised: by fam- i musicians,:and,whose lightning fingers merry v music of the instrument. A comedy'and' a gazette 'complete the picture programme, which is t further ehhanc£i^Aby.:the; playing of M'ss. iEdwards'i ".bfi ->,A«*ra.;;'..;':V.v;'V -,-.'•:. :. ; .' .',. • '"■■■....-;r -iA' ,