WORLD’S PICTURES

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 December 1928, Page 2

WORLD’S PICTURES

“HANGMAN’S HOUSE.” WEDNESDAY. “Hangman’s House,” John Ford’s new Fox Films production, based on Byrne’s great novel of Irish life, will be shown on Wednesday at the Town Hall, with Victor McLcnglen, Juno Collyer, Barry Kent, Earle Foxe, and Hobart P.osworth in prominent roles. “Hangman’s House,” according to studio executives am! preview critics, is one of the finest things Ford has done for the silver sheet. It is typically Irish, with fast horses and beautiful women, and it is said the action outrivals even the dramatic intensity of this director’s earlier efforts, including “The Iron Horse,” “Throe Bad Men,” “Four Sons,” and “Mother Machrcc. ” ?

“FAUST.” THURSDAY. The newest interpretation of Mepliisto, Satan, or the devil, is that rendered, by Emil Tannings, distinguished character actor in the U.F.A. production. “Faust,” which will be shown on Thursday only. Tannings makes of the evil one a being almost human in his every move, yet with a swiftness, a sleekness, a dcvilishness that is not in any creature of this earth. Supporting Emil Tannings in the superproduction which Cinema Art films, Ltd., is releasing, are Camilla Horn, a screen “find” of the director F. W. Murium. Gos I a Eknian, Sweden’s greatest actor, and Yvette Guilbcrt, the distinguished French disease.