ATTRACTIONS AT THE ALBION.

Southland Times, Issue 20016, 2 November 1926, Page 11

ATTRACTIONS AT THE ALBION.

To-night: “The Set Up” (Art Acord); “The Happy Ending” (Fay Comp ton, Jack Buchanan). To-morrow: “The Bat” (Mary Roberts ■ Rinehart’s play) ; “Time the Comedian” (Mae Busch, Lew Cody). Saturday next: The Trans-Contiuental Limited” (Johnny Walker, Eugenia Gilbert); "The Verdict” (Lou Tellegen, Louise Lorraine).

A thrilling Western crammed with excitement is drawing the crowds to the Albion Theatre where Art Acord is starring in “The Set Up,” a Blue Streak Western. Rapid action and romance bold the limelight in this typical Acord picture which Is his best in many months. Clifford Smith directed.

When Roland West disclosed his plans to produce the “The Bat” greatest contemporary thriller, after purchase of the screen rights from Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood for the highest price paid this year for an independent venture, he decided to follow the plot in a general way, but resolved to introduce twists and complications that will perplex even the authors and the people who have seen the play. Most theatre-goers will have to see the picture to unravel a new mystery, according to West. Screening at the Albion tomorrow.

There are nearly as many laughs as gasps in the photoplay of “The Bat,” according to reports. The action is rapid-fire from start to finish, and the identity of "The Bat,” who commits three murders, robs banks and terrorises an entire community, is the outstanding problem of this unique Roland West mystery thriller. Elinor Glyn, Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel go far to make “The Only Thing” the greatest love story ever told. When Samuel Goldwyn’s latest production “Partners Again—with Potash and Perlmutter” opens at the Albion Theatre very shortly, comedy lovers are promised a portion of laughs such as is seldom meted out in an evening. Needless to say, “Partners Again” is another of those rollicking business comedies wherein the famous partners, portrayed by George Sidney and Alexander Carr, engage in a distinctly different line of business. This time it is the distribution of automobiles which captures their fancy. They deal in the “Schenckmann Six” a car principally noted for its faults. Many and harassing are their experiences in demonstrating the new models, and many hair-breadth escapes are their lot. Not all the thrills are contained in the automobile episodes, however. In the name of public merriment and excitement Fred Thomson and Silver King have committed entertainment in the first degree! Once more this popular star and his famous horse come to the screen with an offering which is a riot of laughter and a panic of thrills. In “All Around Frying Pan,” F. B. O’s latest release featuring the western actor and athlete, there is really two shows in one. The Alturas Round-up which was actually shot for the picture supplies one show and the story of Frank Richardson Pierce, which has been made to include this famous cowboy contest, supplies the other. Director David Kirkland himself adapted the story to the silver sheet, and he made a distinctive job of it. The new production will be seen here soon at the Albion Theatre. “Romola,” known as “The Perfect Picture,” adapted from George Eliot’s classic novel, will be screened at the Albion Theatre. This picture was made in Florence, Italy, and in it the Gish sisters are'together again. This year’s film sensation at the Albion to-morrow “The Bat”—the flitting phantom whose wings fan every audience into tremors of awe and spasms of glee. Does it harm a romantic actor’s popularity if audiences know he is married ? Lou Tellegen thought so, and for that reason denied himself the congratulations of his friends for a year and a half after his wedding. Then he turned from romantic leads to the richer field of the character actor, assuming a “heavy” role for the first time in Phil Goldstone’s production, “The Verdict,” playing at' the Albion Theatre, on Saturday. , When Mr Tellegen decided to remove the veil from his private life, he had not only his wedding to announce, but also the existence of a six-months-old son—a dual cause for congratulation. Two newcomers to the screen have roles in Art Acord’s latest starring vehicle “Sky High Corral,” a Blue Streak Western which is coming to the Albion Theatre soon. They are both Western he-men and have hardriding roles. Blackie Thompson and “Missouri” Royer, real cowpunchers, are their names. The cast also includes Marguerite Clayton, Duke R. Lee, Jack Mower, Tom Lingham and Floyd Shackelford. All who enjoyed “Scandal” as a play, and all who enjoyed “Scandal” as a film with Connie Talmadge, have a treat in store at the Albion soon, when "Another Scandal” will be filmed. Lois Wilson plays the leading role in this, her first starring picture. She sends her husband away from her on his private yacht with a young girl, the girl’s hostess and a friend, all of whom she invited tn make the trip. Then actuated by jealousy she deliberately wounds him. The resultant parting and the battle nf the wife to retain her husband comprises a story of gripping and vital human appeal. Holmes Herbert plays the leading male role. Although tens of thousands have seen the stage version of “The Bat” in its several years’ career, the secret of its real culprit as finally revealed by its authors, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, has been well kept, and it is expected the same loyalty to good entertainment will prevail now it is shown at the Albion to-morrow. The raided bank! The haunted halls! The hidden chamber! The flitting Omen of Ill! The ghostly shades! The disguised strangers! The hysterical maid! And the stirring tempo of a thousand terrors, gasps and laughs! That’s “The Bat,” at the Albion to-morrow. “Time the Comedian” the brilliantly successful novel by Kate Jordan, baa been adapted to the screen for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Robert Z. Leonard, and will be shown at the Albion Theatre to-morrow. The author wrote an engrossing piece of dramatic composition, nothing of which has been lostt in its transposition to the silversheet. Time is pictured as the grim comedian of Life, twisting the destinies of mortals fts a jester might play with puppets. An extraordinary beautiful young wife is shown fighting a demon of discontent that threat-

ens her life and happiness, but she finally gives way and seeks solace with her husband’s friend. Lew Cody, Mae Busch, Gertrude Olmsted, and Creighton Hale fill the principal roles, and give superb oerformanees.