EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 104, 29 October 1927, Page 7

EMPRESS THEATRE.

The programme at the Empress Theatre yesterday included :i. flue British release,

"A Daughter in Revolt," with Hermione Baddeley (a London stage favourite), Robert Poulton, Ena Grossmith, and others. This is a talc of a girl's revolt against the stodgiliess of her home Wife. Finally she is involved In a jewel robbery, and is only too glad to return home to her family. A new understanding and a happy romance are her lot. This is the kind of picture that will popularise British productions. In "Tho Gilded Highway" is another family story, showing what the sudden access of wealth might do to a family accustomed to plain living. A legacy left by an uncle enables tbo family to entertain on a lavish scale; their first bid for socH fame is per medium of a grand ball, on a scale of lavishness that brings only ridicule from those they wish to entertain. At the height of their carnival career, they learn that the fortune is a myth—the uncle's method of revenging himself on the family for their inattention to him during his last Illness. Further Into the mire they go, until the workhouse faces the parents, and the son and daughter seek refuge with an old family servant in her boardinghouse. They work out their own salvation, and learn that money cannot buy happiness. Dorothy Devore, Sheldon Lewis, Jlyrna Loy, and Florence Turner are in tho splendid cast. A new series of the Parisian cabaret scenes is submitted; this time the visitor sees tho Tic Tac, and there are other supports to a fine programme.