AL JOLSON ENTERTAINMENT

Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 9

AL JOLSON ENTERTAINMENT

SOMETHING NEW IN DRAMATIC TALKIES A 1 Joison’s new picture picture, * Say It With Songs,’ Warner Bros.’ latest special, coming to the Princess Theatre to-morrow, is the story of a man who, by a trick of fate, loses loved ones, liberty, and opportunity, suffers imprisonment, and finds peace through his devotion to a child, played by Davey Lee. ‘Say It With Songs' is said to be ,a grand production, and Jolson acts with his usual consummate skill. The story concerns - Joe Lane, ’ a happy-go-lucky and improvident, but gifted, song “plugger, who just on the verge of success ns a recording and broadcasting artist fights and accidentally kills his employer when be learns of the latter’s unwelcome attentions to his _ wife. _ For this Joe goes to prison, leaving his wife to shift for herself and their child. Believing that she has never been happy with him and realising how his present punishment will punish her ever after, Joe forces her to divorce him, and she later considers marriage .with a former admirer, now a famous surgeon. The child is put into a school, and being unhappy there follows his father, who has come to visit him ,and is injured by a truck. Only a specialist can help tho, child, and Joe takes him to his former wife’s suitor for help. All ends happily. Others in the cast are Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thompson, and Fred Kohler.