‘HOT HEELS’

Evening Star, Issue 20040, 4 December 1928, Page 11

‘HOT HEELS’

COMING TO THE OCTAGON Glenn Tryou’s latest comedy, ‘Hot Heels,’ will be the chief attraction at the Octagon Theatre on Friday. Good entertainment, human interest, thrills, and comedy are mixed up in this picture, which starts out on a comedy slapstick note, but finishes vwth a whirlwind horse-race, keeping tho spectators in tense suspense. There are numerous comie absurdities in the opening scenes, where the hero is seen as an eccentric hotelkeeper, acting as his own clerk, and ■ playing all kinds of tricks on tho members of tho travelling theatrical troupe which has come to town. The wandering dancers put on a show at the town opera house. This is a laughable burlesque of the melodramas which were popular out in the small towns a generation ago. Later when the troupe has spent all its money the hero agrees to finance it for a trip to Havana, and goes along with the outfit. He is decoyed into this arrangement by the leading man, who fakes a telegraph message from Cuba. In the development of the plot it is shown that when the troupe arrives in Havana the hero discovers he had been fooled and thinks the heroine, with whom he is in love, had helped to “frame” him The horse, Hot Heels, who performs m the show, is a thoroughbred As a last resource the heroine enters Hot Heels in a big race. The villain beats up Tod • Sloan, the jockey, who was to have ridden Hot Heels. The hero substitutes, rides Hot Heels to victory,* and , wins the purse and the girl _ Glenn Tryon does excellent woiT in the part of hero, and Patsy Ruth' Miller is a charming heroine.

A mystery comedy, entitled ‘Bachelor BridpsJ will have second place on the programme.