'LUXURY LINER'

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 14

'LUXURY LINER '

DRAMATIC FILM FOR EMPIRE The lives of the passengers on a liner on its way from Hamburg to New York arc portrayed with great realism in ‘ Luxury Liner,’ which will have its initial screening at the Empire Theatre to-morrow. Tho film depicts the drama of the vessel from steerage to first cabin, exposing the intimate lives of tho men and women bound from Germany to New York. A harassed doctor, trailing his wife, who has eloped with another man; a powerful financier, even on tho voyage playing with stocks, and women ; an opera singer; a girl in the steerage exploiting her own charms to get herself into tho first class; an elevator operator, posing as a ship’s officer before gaping girl passengers; a dying mother, keeping 1 " alive long enough to see her son in New York once more—these are among the many whoso lives are dissected by the camera. Around the central theme is built an intensely real and human drama. Tho innermost thoughts, not only of the principals, hut of tho other passengers, are revealed.

George Brent is admirably cast as the young doctor, and Vivienne Osborne appears as the wife. Frank Morgan is excellent as the wealthy shipping magnate; but perhaps tho outstanding performance is given by Alice White, who makes a welcome return to the screen as a flirtatious typiste. Others in a notable cast are Zita Johann, Verce Teasdale, and C. Aubrey Smith. An interesting supporting programme will also bo presented.