SHORTT'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 7

SHORTT'S THEATRE.

"Tho Crimson City," starring Myrnn Loy and John Mlljan, la tho principal Him at Shortt's Theatre. It is a thrilling romance of tho China coast. "Tho Crimson City" vividly pictures tho adventures of Gregory-Kent, an Englishman wrongfully accused of embezzlement, who flees to China, and there, in "Tho House of a Thousand Daggers," Intercedes for Nan Toy, a slave girl, who Is being tortured by her brutal Oriental master. Kent, thrown from the dive, seeks the sea, meaning to end his life. Nan Toy follows,' helps him to a hiding place, and nurses him to health. Here her master finds her and takes her back. But the story hinges on the fact that a former sweetheart of Kent, with her father, 13 visiting Brand, a wealthy oil man, who himself loves the white girt. feA solicitor comes from England with proof that Kent is guiltless—and then follow the complications, which thrlllingly Involve all the actors in the lurid drama. Myrna Loy, as Nan Toy,' is a figure of exotic loveliness. She plays the part with the mystery and pathos of which she alone is capable. Archi« Mayo directed. The cast includes John Mlljan. Leila Hyams, Matthew Betz, Anders Kandolf, Sojln, Anna May Wong, and Richard Tucker. Anthony Coldeway did the story and scenario. There are good supports.