DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 13

DE LUXE THEATRE.

Reginald Denny, prince of screen actors, has the loading role In "Clear the Decks," screened for the first time, last evening at tho De Luxe Theatre. The story told . la'-the' film is a most humorous one, as -well as being interlaced' •with many startling adventures and a most interesting plot. Reginald Denny personates a joung explorer who returns home from the wilds of Central Africa, where he has lived a more or less Isolated and semi-savago life for a number of years, quite apart from tho amenities of civilisation.. Ho has not seen a white woman in all the" years he has been in Africa, and it ■ is hardly strange that when ho returns and sees a particularly pretty girl, a character personated, by Olive Hasbrouck, ho quickly falls in love. However, ho does not know her name, or where she lives, or, in fact, anything about her. All he knows is the result of a few words she passes with a companion to the effect that sho intends to make a voyage to sonio distant country. He misses tho name of the ship, but is determined to sail on the same vessel, and after a lot of trouble finds the right ship, and from then onwards his adventures are many, varied, and exciting. In fact, his life is one wild whirl of sensationalism, in which jewel thieves and an officer who Js in league with them, play an exciting part. Tho girl does not know who he is, as he is travelling on somebody, else's ticket, but she becomes intensely interested in him towards the end of tho stnry, and it ended as most good film tales usual> do, with tho forecasting of a marriage. Tho stars were supported by a very able cast, while tho ■ sea and other settings were extremely well done. The programme also included the usual gazettes, In which there, were many subjects of topical interest, while thero was also a cartoon and a Mitre Ike comedy. On the musical side of the programme, tho Orchestra de Luxe played selections from "The Vagabond King" as an overture as well as tuneful incidental music. For the" entr'acte Wurlitzor. organ and orchestra combined in a topical piece, "Voice of tho Bells." . • ... The announcement is made that the air piclure, "Tho Legion of the Condemned," will commence its Wellington season at tho Do Luxe Theatre on Friday next. This picture was produced by the men who mado "Wings," and is hailed as the companion picture to that great film which had such a sensational season In Wellington some months ago. This new film tolls of tho exploits of a section of Iho French Air Force which was mado up of a band of men recruited from tho far corners of the earth, each with tho express desire to die. Tho picture is ono of the most thrilling ever produced, and somo of tho air scenes even surpassed those which we saw In "Wings." The cast Is a big one, and includes swell wellknown names as Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, Lano Chandler, and Barry Norton. Tho latter will be remembered by the fine role he played as "mother's boy" in "What Price Glory."