‘WEARY RIVER’
DICK BARTHLEMESS TALKS interesting and dramatic conlrasht 'make up the skeleton of ‘Weary River,’ the now First National (production starring Richard Barthelmess, which is to be released at the Empire Theatre next Friday. , A prison, a night club, a gambling den. a vaudeville theatre, a radio broadcasting station, a speakeasy, and a luxurious apartment arc some of the locales used in this tense dramatic jiroduction. Richard Barthelmess.. is heard a« well as seen in this production, and the star’s voice is reported to bo sensationally fine, both in singing as well as speaking. There is interest in every foot pt the story, and there is suspense in some of the situations of the most exciting kind. Betty Compson, who has already won a measure of fame in silent films, achieves the success she deserves by reason of her perfect voice and acting. ‘ Weary River ’ is the epic of a down, find-outer whose plaintive music reaches through prison bars to find lo~e and a new life a thousand mile* away, -
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Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 15
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171‘WEARY RIVER’ Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 15
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