PICTURE THEATRES

Evening Star, Issue 18714, 16 August 1924, Page 10

PICTURE THEATRES

EMPIRE, Dick Turpin is presented in the guise of a hero as well as highwayman in the Stohl super-production ‘ Dick Turpin’s Hide to York/ at the Empire Theatre. Matheson Lang, as Turpin, converts the famous ride into a thrilling attempt to rescue a damsel in distress, as well as to escape the Bow street runners. The picture commands the admiration of all. It discards the more sordid details and accentuates bravery and gallantry. Dick is an outlawed gentleman rather than a thief. A summarised version of the story reads: Ferret Baris, on his way to a castle near York, is a braggart who. wagered ;30 guineas that Dick Turpin could not rob him. Turpin robs him, and falls in love with the daughter, Dick answers her call for help in time to kill the blackguard earl and set her free to marry the man she loves. OCTAGON. The headliner of a fine programme of the Octagon Theatre is a Paramount picture entitled ‘ Pied Piper Malone.’ The story tells of Jack Malone, a seaman by profession. 111-feeling between Malone and Orosbie, who maimed a certain pretty school teacher as his girl, is created when the girl is invited by the Malone family to a party, and tli© bad feeling is augmented when Jack is promoted first officer of _ the ship they both are aboard. Crosbie is confined to his cabin because of misbehaviour, but is released when a typhoon strikes the vessel. Malone’s good work for the ship is undone, and Sis rival manages to return homo first and claim glory for himself, meanwhile libelling Jack. Malone reappears in his home town, but is accorded a cold reception, and is finally ordered to leave the town. It is x>roved that he has been misjudged. Patty (the teacher) runs to the wharf, and is in time to tell Jack that her faith in him is unshaken. QUEEN’S. A double-feature bill is at the Queen’s Theatre. ‘Hoodman Blind/ has a plot not new, but the tale is told in a new way. The story tells of a man’s misunderstanding, responsible for a period of unhappiness for more than one. He understands at last, so that the story ends happily. The principals arc Gladys Hulette, Eddie Gribben, and Marc MDermott. / The Meanest Man in the World ’ is an amusing comedy-drama featuring Bert Lytell and Blanche Sweet. EVERYBODY’S. Two dramas of splendid typo are at Everybody’s Theatre for the current week. One of these is a picturisation of Peter B. Kyne’s book ‘ Kindred of the Dust,’ a' powerful North-West story. Miriam Cooper, Ralph Graves, and Lionel Belmore have the chief parts, ‘ Sherlock Brown ’ is the cleverlypresented second drama. This photoplay deals in an artistic, and interesting manner with tho adventures of a man who sots out to solve a mystery. How he does so and wins tho hand pf a girl form tho crux of the plot.