DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 150, 31 December 1928, Page 3

DE LUXE THEATRE.

With a wonderful cast, Including Margarita Mscher, Moua Ray, ■Virginia Gray, and Gertrude Astor on tho feminine side, and Arthur Carcw, James Lowe, and Fruncis Forde on the male side,- "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Is drawing crowded houses-to' tho De Luxe- Theatre. • 'i'ttoHim faithfully follows the story from Its opon-, ing chapter totho days of the great liberation. The'scenes at'the-slave market,1 the escape .of < Elizii across, tho broken Ice of tho Mississippi, tho fdllovvlug greyhounds close behind her,, and the. death' of Uncle Tom, and-tho liaasiug of little Eva aro faithfully represented according to the story tbld by. Mrs. Stowo.' 'j'ho' only. other, picture on the programme Is- a gazette, containing many topical jincidents. On'■: the musical side of the programme the usual attention "to ■ detail ,1s apparent, a feature being the negro melodies and spirituals iplayed by. the Orchestra Db Luxe, and by Mr. EmanuelAaroiia on the Wurlitzet' organ. • Two gramophone records are also utilised to give "colour" to the story told by the film. Thoiprogramme will be repeated twice dally during tho.week.,;. During tho intervals In' making the docK scenes for-"TlieTrairof,'9B,". which will commence screening at'the De Luxe Theatre on -Friday next,' John 'Swariion.'aud other famous: "sourdoughs" '■ amused- :tho.- tencierfeet ; and younger: generation-by showing.. them how gold, was.panned a; the' Klondike In .'98;.. using their own. keepsake; nuggets to demonstrate, how .gold went to tho bottom while the mud- and stones were washed away. .Swanson Occupied a.cabin on - the 'banks of • the Yukon with Rex. Beach, during-the:stampede. -The.old-fashioned steamers used in ,"The Trail of .'9B'.' are relics of tho original: rush-that, travelled north .wlth,;overtaxed passenger lists. ■'.:> Tho Excelsior;and1, the City of Topelia still proudly-retain; their famous 'names. ■.': News' of a;fresh gold.."striko" has approximately.' the', same effect on an old pros-, pecfor as the clang of. flrebells :,on. a;■ retired horse... That1 Is why .."old-timers'" will- fully sympathise -with . the .rush , that follows',the ,bld Swede's' prosperous:.footstops■. during the,. Dawlson 'City scenes .of Clarence j Brown's Klondllie epic, i; In-"Tlio Trail ,6f .oB the larscat/danc-inß;isald6n'"-cver" constructed for-tho screen Is scenT" Tliis is an exact ■ replica-.'-of; the famous Monte Carlo -Saloon--which was the 'centre, of, night ■ Ufo' in Dawson -City"• in; the late, 90-s— tho, goal of» the :Jason's.who dared Nature,'-.man and. beast •In their mad stampede. to ; tlio land of ,tho! goldeu treasure. : Mighty' is. the., drama, thero' at ;tlio::end of the ;story,:when the,.hero and the'villain flght the screen'sgreatest.-battle for a'*woman's love and!honour;.'a fittingly spectacular' end "to the,; greatest "of .motion pictures.