BRITANNIA THEATRE.
Tho screeu .version of ' Dan Byrne's bestseller, "Hangman's House," is now -showing at tho Britannia Theatre. Tho story is that or an adamant old Irish Chief Justice who, as
"Jimmy Iho Hangman," insists that Ills one daughter shall wed a man she dislikes rather than tho man of her choice, in the person of Larry Kent, who is cast as Dermott M'Uermott. June Collyer, as Connaughtl O'Brien, suffers untold ngony as the unwilling hrida of John Darcy. Darcy is trailed, to trt-ianrl by' Citizen Hogan, played by Victor H'L.U'leu. Oonnauglit wonders why Darcy fears the m.vsteri,ous Hogan, but Is kept In doubt until the day of the annual steeplechase in which Connauglit has entered her favourite horse, The Bard of Armagh. Darcy, betting against The Bard, is infuriated whei. Dermoti. rides The Bard to victory. Darcj- shoots The Bard and is exposed by Hogan as the man who has wronged Hogan s sister in Paris. Gripping sequences pile up In prepacaiiori for a smashing climax. Tho second picture is ."Sadio Thompson," starring Gloria Sivanson. ;.--■■
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 95, 26 April 1929, Page 5
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176BRITANNIA THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 95, 26 April 1929, Page 5
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