INTERESTING COMPLICATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20999, 13 January 1932, Page 7

INTERESTING COMPLICATIONS

‘TRANSATLANTIC SHOULD ENTERTAIN One of the most interesting pictures of the new season will commence at the St. James Theatre on Friday. It is ‘Transatlantic,’ a Fox production, which has a long list of screen favourites, headed by Edmund Lowe, in its cast. ‘ Transatlantic,’ briefly, has to do with the tangled lives of a dozen or so men and women who set out from an American port for Europe aboard a liner. Unknown to each other before the vessel slips its moorings, they speedily become involved in a tangle which takes the entire voyage across the Atlantic to unravel. Aboard is Edmund Lowe, a high-class gambler of the Robin Hood type, and Lois Moran, daughter of an old German Jens grinder, played by Jean Hersholt; John Holliday is seen as a wealthy banker; and Myrna Loy plays the part rff his wife. Lowe befriends Miss Moran, and she immediately falls in love with the handsome debonair gambler. Miss Loy enlists his aid in saving her husband from Greta Nissen, and Lowe has plans of his own for taking over some of Halliday’s surplus cash, with which he is fleeing from his tottering bank. Lowe has a splendid role as the light-hearted and lightfingered gentleman who lives by his wits. Miss Moran is appealing, as usual, as the young German-American girl, concerned over the fate of her father, who almost loses his mind at the news of the bank disaster. Hersholt, of course, gives an excellent account of himself in the character role of the old German. The box plans are at ’The Bristol.