SPORT AND ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 1

SPORT AND ROMANCE

THEMES OF OCTAGON’S NEW FILMS ‘ The Sport Parade,’ which conies to the Octagon Theatre on Friday, is exactly what it purports to be. A 1 story that hangs loosely together is made tha medium for screening a series of football and wrestling matches. In addition glimpses are given of pretty well all known forms of athletic sports as well as of ipotor racing, horse racing, and air racing. These are introduced by means of making one of the leading characters a sporting writer for a newspaper, and the procession of motor calamities and aviation crashes that flits across the screen are all part of _ his day’s work. The story_ is a twentieth century version of the industrious and the idle apprentice, with the difference that the industrious apprentice reforms his idle colleague and resigns his best girl to- him. _ In a drama of international swindle involving an upstart promoter, a scion of a prominent family, and a society, debutante, ‘ The Big Brain,’ also coming to the Octagon on Friday, features George E. Stone, Phillips Holmes, Fay Wray, and a notable supporting cast.- ‘ The Big Brain ’ combines roman tie intrigue with its revelations of crooked stock manipulation. Max Werner, a barber shop assistant, journeys to London to market his spurious oil stocks.* Ignoring Terry Van Sloan’s rebuff to his social pretensions, ho hires tha vouth, in want of work, as a salesman,' When investors demand returns. Mar departs and leaves Terry to face the music.