STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE.

Audiences going to tho Strand Theatre this coming week will sco a hilarious new angle on what happens behind the scenes in American leadiuK educational institutions. And, incidentally, they are discovering why girl students prefer the athletic boys to the clever ones. Buster Kcaton provides the enlightenment in Ills spectacular comedy, "College." The frozen-faced star starts out as a bookworm, a university highbrow do luxe, and ho winds up as a bone-breaking, fire-breathing 'varsity star. He does not become an athlete becauso ho particularly likes strenuous sport, but becauso his sweetheart shames him Into an ambition for physical prowess. "College is a real comedy and a picture with a story which holds the spectators' interest all the time. The climax of "College" is a boat race in which Keaton, as a coxswain, blunders his crew to victory while thousands of spectators look on. Among tho actors and actresses who share laurels in Keaton's supporting cast are Ann Cornwall, tho comedian's leading lady; Grant Withers and Florence Turner. "College' is unfortunately only ablo to lio shown for one week. It is supported by an "Our Gang comedy a gazette, .1 Nature study, and an hve s Review. The complete programme, screens continuously from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.