THOMAS MEIGHAN'S LATEST FILM

Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7

THOMAS MEIGHAN'S LATEST FILM

•SKYLINE' COMING TO STRAND

A positively new angle in screen plots will be seen in ‘ Skyline,’ which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. Thoms Meighan _ Hardie Albright, Maureen O’Sullivan, Myrna Loy, and Donald Dillaway portray the featured roles, and Meighan adds another personal triumph to his string of successful pictures. ‘ Skyline ’ depicts the adventures of an ambitious youth; of uncertain parentage, reared on a dilapidated river barge, and dominated by its brutal captain. On her death" bed the boy’s mother tells him the captain is not his father, and give! 1 him a brooch that was presented to her by his real father, whom she never married. Tho youngster escapes by swimming to land, where he finally gets a job on a New York building site. The builder, a dynamic and iqrcenu individual, takes a deep interest in the plucky, good-natured lad, and finally discovers that he himself is the hoy s father. Meanwhile the lad meets and falls in Jove with the daughter of a fellow-worker,/but also becomes fascinated by an alluring siren. To save him from ruining his life, the bo\ s father manages to get himself.caught by his son in a compromising situation with the adventuress. At this point the climax of the picture comes with stunning force and in a most surprising manner. Tho romantic element of this picture is furnished by Albright, as the boy, andJVLss O’Sullivan as the o-ii-l The beautiful and exotic Myrna Loy has never played as persuasively.