OCTAGON'S ENTERTAINING PROGRAMME

Evening Star, Issue 21482, 5 August 1933, Page 10

OCTAGON'S ENTERTAINING PROGRAMME

• THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL 1 Two full-length films provide splendid entertainment at tho Octagon J lieatre. ‘ The World, the Flesh, and the Devil,’ the principal offering, is remarkably strong m construction, the canvas being full but not too crowded. The leading player of Ihe World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Harold Huth,*i of whom too little has been seen, will be remembered as the .socalled dabbler in quackery in the Outsider’; in that production he had a shadow of shadiness enveloping him, and in this later film he is definitely criminal. A suave, unscrupulous lawyer, with an irking lack ot ethics, and very dishonest; the murder of an old woman to further his ends is all in the day’s work. The supposed changing ot children whereby one is unjustly linked with a title, and Hath s efforts as Nicholas Brophy to usurp that title form tho pivot of the plot, ami tnei in the less active parts of the stoii there is a brooding sense ol an active background. Brophy has a clerk who vies with him in the dishonesty line, but who has a scam ol good running through him that is ultimately responsible for the clearing-up of the tangle. Ibis role is admirably played by \ ictoi S. Stanley, and the role ol hismothoi, who is the bibulous proprietress ol the dockside drinking den, tails to Sara Allgood to interpret, and well she doc* it Peers, legal men, detectives, and others are figured in this dramatic pioduct of a British studio. As the “ sharp ” lawyer Hath has a role that suits him admirablj. He aims at his half-brother’s fortune, whileHsla Bevan has the part of Beatrice Elton, the half-brother’s fiancee, who is determined fio trip up the only one living who can upset Brophy s claim to . being, the true son of S i James Hall, instead of the hah brother who is the present heir, is Mrs . kt>pn£r of ft SUbiCl I ftUeftU Sng Tho World. the Flesh, and the Devil,” on the banks of the Thames. To prevent her mining ’ nlot Brophy murders her, and Ins half-brother. Robert Hal), coming to the den to hear from Mrs Stanger tin truth of his birth, finds her dead, and is subsequently charged as the murderer. From her son. howevei, a clcik in Brophy’s office, both parties learn ol the existence of a letter which Mrs Stanger had written to feir James Halibut instead of posting, c.-oncea cd it in tho saloon, m a hiding place kaolin only to kmlt «d «.„«£ Brophy accompanies the son to I World, the Flesh, and the Devil, but voting Stanger, having meanwhile, discovered that it was Brophy, and not Hnll who killed his mother, seizes the letter to give to Hall. While Brophy ind Stancer arc fighting tor possession „TuSIXr, >.Th r o f Kivor, »; nob has been rising to flood level, bursts tho embankment and pours into tho Saloon? out of which only one escapes There is plenty of excitement in The fhevenno Kid.’ the action being fast and 5 thrilling, and some bright comedy is interwoven into the main o events. Torn Keene gives a fine pm formanco in the principal ro e. .1 e supporting pictures, ''’eluding the latest inst.'ilment of Ibe Jungle My> tcry,* nro varied and entertaining.