REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE.

■£??, Part Lano" will ba shown finally .it ?Sb Resent Theatre this evening. ; ..-.-.■' "Thi. Broken. liUliab}-." fiho Broken Lullaby," which opens at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, tells of Uie postwar events'in the life of a former soldier In thtf -war-time army.' Tho principal role 3 are played, by Lionel Barrymoro, Nancy Carroll, and shlUlps• Holmes. Holme's:is acen-as the Soldier of Brance, who, in ths performance' of his dutyi kills a young German soldier, during Jils big' 'enemy drive. As. soon aa the deed is Committed, bo begins to suffer a profound relaorge,'' From a letter on the person of his jrlctlm he learns the name of tho dead soldier's Carman .sweetheart, Nancy Carroll, sJid tho name of-the town-In which she lives vilUi the flead man's father, Lionel Barrymore, a stolid German Nationalist, After tho war Holmes, driven by ~i sense of romorso and contrition, jwea to Nancy's home town to confess to her and the- father that ho was tho man who tilled tho "youth she lo^ed. She intercepts "this crsrand, and persuades him, to say nothing about the war to tho father. Barrymbre meets Holmes, likes him, and soon forgets his old !anUEOslty-fc>r the ftrench. Holmes falls In love with Nancy, and' they plan to get married. But theyotiai feels that It will ho diahonourf«blß to'atarify Nancy until ho has told-Barry-Jnore thejirtitlu The remainder of tho-picturß Us concerned with the dramatic events -which ttxke place' Defote ~{he lovers smooth out their {problems. • - ■ ..-■■■