DE LUXE TO-NIGHT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1928, Page 8

DE LUXE TO-NIGHT.

“THE THIRTEENTH JUROR.”

The age of miracles has not yet passed. If you doubt this statement go to the De Luxe Theatre to-night, when “The Thirteenth Juror,” a UniversalJewel production, is holding the screen, and see Francis X. Bushman, the dean of all motion picture stars, who appears not a day over thirty. How he does it no one seems to know, but to see him playing opposite the entrancing Anna Q. Nilsson, is enough to knock all the other so-called younger leading men into a cocked hat. He has a heavy part, that of an elderly attorney, and ho carries it with all the pomp and ceremony of a regulai brother bar associate. “The Thirteenth Juror” is a brilliant story of the lasting friendship of two men, even though the pleasure of one causes heartaches for the other. It is a perfect screen version of ,'the sensationally famous stage play “Counsel fpr the Defence,” which was the talk of Broadway when it first was produced in New York by Harry Irving Dodge, the author. The plot of the story surrounds the unalloyed friendship of a prominent and wealthy attorney who loves the wife of his best #1 who has not been so successful in the business world. Their friendship continues, even after' the marriage of Marsden and Helen Fraine, and not until George Quinn, a political boss, infers relations between Desmond and the pretty wife, does doubt creep in. Desmond, the ever successful attorney, to prove his feeling toward Marsden, takes his ease when Quinn is found murdered and Marsden is held for the crime. How he saves his lifelong friend from life imprisonment is told in dramatic fashion in a crashing climax.