DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

A sensational "holdup" of ,i New York night club is the thrill given by Lon Chancy and a largo cast as one of the details of "The Big City," which is now screening at the De Luxe Theatre. The story shows Chancy as the chief of. a group of gangsters in a plot of gangster warfare. Marcellno Day plays the heroine, a shopgirl enmeshed In the plot, and James Murray the juvenile lead, a young henchman of the gangster star. -Betty Compson, Mathew Beta, John George, Virginia Pearson, and others of note are in the cast. A ballet of screen beauties, trained by Margaret Burt, former Follies dancer, under the supervision of Tod Browning, the' director, is seen in ono elaborate scene. The "hold-up" Is staged by .lames Murray and Betty Compson, who, as masked dancers, force the guests to pass by, depositing their valuables on a table, a repetition of an occurrence In a night club not long ago in New . York. Good supports arc also shown and the usual excellent musical programme is supplied.