STRAND THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 6

STRAND THEATRE

Comedy coupled with spectacular moments give Buster Keaton a'picture that is delighting audionces at the Strand Theatre. "College" is the title of Keaton's latest laugh. luo picture opens with Buster a typical small-town high school graduate, receiving hi 3 diploma. He is a studious lad/the son of an over-in-dulgent mother who!has reared him to be a boolnvorm: But when he enters college, his sweetheart tells him he will have to become an athloto or she will never tolerate him. Ho fails in baseball and on the track, but finally, through a twist of fate, blunders into a! Job as coxswain of the university crew, and surprises everybody, even himself; by making good. Ann Cornwall appears -to advantage as Keaton s sweetheart.' t.An . Our Gang comedy, an fcyo s • Eevlcw a Pathe Uazette and a Nature Interest picture "make' up'the1 supporting programme, and the Strand Orchestra ■ adds to the merit of the entertainment.' -As advertised, College is only available for 'one week's screening at the Strand Theatre, and it will be followed, on Friday, by what' is universally considered as the finest sea picture of the year-"The Blood ShiD " Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considers the story .itself to be the finest he has ever read and the picture in the able hands of Hobart Bosworth, Richard-Arlen- (of "\W' fameh and Jacqueline Logan,-is nothing short of magnificent. . • . '