1930-02-04 — Page 11

Innocent Cheat

Thia, Was Happened,

Ruth Dowry Groves

wasn't

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

CINEMA NOTES.

LUSTRE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 41930.

Charles, the suave butler-burglar. In fact, the entire cast may well be proud of their work in this difficult picture, for in no sense can it be termed merely a' talking motion picture. It is a motion pleture background for the clever- est dialogue penned in many sea sons."

VOICE OF STAR ADDS TO TALENTS.

There may be finer speaking voices than those heard in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney Norma Herbert Bunston enacts the role Shearer's all-talking staring voht-of Lord Elton, the part, he played in the original stage production, cludes such sterling players as Hedda Hopper, George K. Arthur, ril Chadwick, Moon Carroll, Maude Turner, Madeline Seymour. and Finch Smiles. All are deserv- ing of special mention.

a wealthy man, poor Helen Pare fola (unbappy, when the sira Charles; luck always went againat cle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, now and the balance of the cast, in Helen Pars felt messer about posing him. And your mother was the

Mi Simplicity Just to please her hand- some guardian, Leonard Drent, with whom only child of a very rich man." they accuse her of being in love. And her

Bet

him at the Tite ond day with another wo-

roominats enlla her fool. After they Brent was sure of his last state man, Brent rufuses to tell her about her ment. Further investigation fol- parentage until after she

day font isim gold locket on lowing his trip to Yonkers had re

graduates.

bengar who has fallen id un alley. He bends vealed this to be true. He had no over 16 take the locket and hears mumbled werde which cause him to try to save the hesitation in declaring it.. olden. However, all he can learn that "Charles "

playing at the Queen's Theatre, but we haven't any idea where they may be found. Miss Shearer, who proved her supremacy as a star of the talking screen in "The

Helen whispered.splendid impression that she made his wife in dend and that he has "Yes, Charles Nellin." He con-at that time. Her supporting cast

the beggar's name is Charles Owens Nellin:That is my father's name?" thet

daughter from her realthy grand father, Cyril K. Cunningham, of Yonkers,

hidden

Powing a newspaper man searching forsidered it wise to avoid mention- in this newer production is also of susponse, and a thoroughly sur story, material, Brent learns much of Valong the name Owens. There might an equally splendid callbre, for to his purpose from the corner store gbe a chance that Cunningham did ain who knows the history of the recentrie millionaire, le goes back to And Nellis and not know that it was Nellin's. He

old man by the name of "Oweng" had died

name,

the cheap hotel manAFPT tells him that an didn't want Helen using it when there and been sent to the morgue. Brest alic went to her grandfather.

"And the rest of it?" she de- takes a look at the body and reflects that it in

is my most fortunate for his plan that the old

manded. "What chap had registered under his second name.

Helen graduates and he tella ber that be Leonard ?"

"Your name is Evangeline Helen is now ready to dimeline her parentage and early history..

Cunningham. I have always call- ed you Helen because I preferred were it to Evangeline. You

CHAPTER IX.

"You are," Brent said tensely, named for your mother." "an heirens, Helen,"

Helen breathed it after him. She "An heiress!" Helen was bewil- told herself she had never heard a beautiful word. "Evange- dered. If Brent had lost his money, more

Suddenly she laughed. He had line. Evangeline."

to me it money for her, of course. Her own "How much nearer

her money in some way. And, he had brings my mother to know lost much of his fortune. A wave name," she said to Brent.

He sighed.. "You see," he said, already... you will want to see her home, won't you?"

Trial of Mary-Dugan," repeats tha·· The plot is one of these amusing sidelights on smart eociety of the present day. It is packed with humour, of the more subtle kind, prising dimax. The production

Mins settings and wardropes. this screen adaptation of Fredericks modishly dressed both as to Lonsdale's famous stage play, Shearer appears in some costumes seemingly was cast with great at that will doubtless hypnotize the tention to the vocal qualities of masculine part of her audience and stir the femining to imitation. all the players.

virtually a

Sidney Franklin, the director, has done a capable job and pro- vided out of the ordinary screen entertainment.

Certainly Norma Shearer was the most logical choice, in this reviewer's estimation, that Holly wood could offer for the role of the aristocratic, sophisticated and Alpine Comedy at the Majestic. thoroughly charming lady crook, a

Having been soldiers, sailors, role made famous on the New York firemen and aviators, all with stage by Ino Claire. Brilliant, hilarious results, Wallace Beery beautiful and fascinating, Miss and Raymond Hatton have become Shearer makes "Mrs. Cheyney mountain climbers and Swiss masterpiece in her yodelers. In the new characteri category of superb interpretations,zations, in which they are seen at even excelling her splendid charac- the Majestic. Theatre, Kowloon, Things hadn't changed for them

"Oh yea," Helen answered, swift in the Bayard Veiller drama, laughable quality that endeared after all. She would simply give her money to Leonard. She tried in her understanding. "but that

Basil Rathbone, beloved by them to the public in "Behind the to tell him this, in words that camé | can't be came between us in any

sophisticated stage audiences, Front," "We're in the Navy Now," with a rush.

"You needn't have told me any- "We shall see," Brent said makes a happy debut on the talking "Firemen, Save My Child," "Now thing." she cried, "Everything gloomily. "But I want you to re-screen as Lord Dilling the hand-We're in the Air," could have been just as it was member that your grandfather was some philanderer who About the money, I mean. Of my friend's enemy your father's Mrs. Cheyney and later makes course I want to know about my enemy. I can't enjoy the thought amends by losing his heart and

marrying her. parents, bl. I've always hoped of giving you over to him."

of gladnes swept over her, filled her eyes with a shining light,

way."

case,

She stoppeu, the new experi- "You won't need to." Helen pro ence of letting her thoughts run to mised. "I don't want his money, words falling short of carrying her Leonard. How could I want it through.

when he was unkind to my And, too, it had come to her sud-mother?" denly that she might be revealing "Well," Brent hedged, "he bad too much of her feelings for her his side of the I suppose guardian. He had not yet asked You see, I'm not an impartial her for her love, she reminded her-judge. To me Charles Nellin. was a real man, a true friend and my Helf.

Brent did not let, a silence fall sympathy was entirely with him."

"What did my grandfather do to upon them. "I'm afraid you don't understand, Helen," he said, mak- him?"

"Nothing, in a way. He refused ing an effort to be patient. "You will not be able to obtain your to give his permission to Nellin's money unless I tell you your story. marriage with his daughter. He's Even then you may not get it. Per as proud as the old Nick, but that sonally I rather hope you won't was natural, beenuse Charles was because I'd still like you to regard only a poor chupa musician, in me as being necessary to you."

fnet. But he got the Idee -in' his "Necessary?" Helen Maid it

hend that Cunningham was trying blankly.

to take his wife away from him."

"I can't say whether he

The accent secretly dated Brent. He understrad it perfectly, knew

A

Way

terization as the murder defendant

exposos

George Barraud, already fami- har of face and voice to screen heards funs, 18 acen-and

that you would be brought up to think him a scoundrel

and he couldn't endure that, for he loved you very much, Helen."

"Poor daddy." Helen murmured tenderly.

their antics are

of the same

As in the case of all good come-

and Hatton are. first seen as dies, the plot is simple. Beery waiters in a Brooklyn restaurant, Beery as the head walter and Hatton as the plain garden style of waiter. War reverses their situation. Beery is a private in the rear rank and Hatton. is a second lieutenant. ·

The war sequence opens at the Armistice, with the soldiers rush- ing for home, but Beery is left behind, detailed by Lieutenant Halton to look after the future, Mrs. Hatton. Beery looks pítéri "But I gave him my solemn pro- her by marrying her, after he has mise that, if you lived until you obtained a job as an Alpine guide were grown, I would tell you about and Swiss yodelor. His, vode), your parents and see that you ful-which can hardly be registered by Alled your mother's dying wish. the lighter makes of yodel meters,

wins him lusty fame and dis-| You must not fail me, Helen.".

"Is that what you meant when tinction, but his bride wing him you spoke of the role I was being only grief and complications. groomed for?" Helen asked him. There are anowalides,.Inndalides, "When you said that i must obey blizzards; everything peculiar to

own?"

and the dogs that search out lost climbers with a keg of wine on their necks,

that Helen considered the word not justified or not, but he probably wishes in preference to my the Alps, including the inn-keeper

haif strong enough...

"Yes," he saiti. "I can't fattori myself that any other ideas I might have could come to, anything."

Helen smiled. Then tell me," she said, "the rest of the story, Whose money will I interit, my father's? My mother's?"

"Neither's," Brent answered briefly, "Your grandfather's,"

"My grandfather! Have a grandfather living?**

"You surely have?

·

Helen caught his arm. "Why didn't you tell me she plunded.

Her question was unexpected, Ibut Leonard Brent was rarely caught off his guard. When he spoke it was with confidence in his ability to satisfy her and push his crooked scheme another foot ahead,"

*1LK. At any rate he left the "ountry and changed his name.

sn't so much what Cunningham, did to him that matters. He had spall opportunity to act against him. Charles kept out of his way. The marriage was an elopement. And afterward Charles never saw your grandfather again."

"And my mother?... Did she go back?"

"Never. But Charles fenred' that rhe might, and it was this fear that drove hini to Mexico. Your grandfather is guilty of having Cuined his life. He made a vaga- bond of him. But.. your mother bitterness. had more cause for

Brent was ready with his answer, "I'd not be telling you now," he said, "if I hadn't promised your father that I would do it when you Her father refused her one and were grown." ·

only appeal for ald-refused it Tell me about my father, and cruelly. It was made for your sake, Helen, and it broke your my mother," Helen urged.

"I never knew your, mother," mother's heart to know that you Brent replied. "Your father, of were to be left behind her in course you know, was one of my poverty. The letter she received closest friends. But I hadn't seen from her father huslened hor him for several years before your death."

before."!

"That is why I have no kind feeling for Cyril Cunningham," Brent commented acidly.

birth-not, unt! I went down to "Oh my poor mother," Hélen Mexico at his dying request to take mouned, you under my "care."

"And

mother?" Helen my pressed. "Where was she?"

"She had died a year "In Mexico."

Yes." ... Helen was thoughtful for a mo ment, thinking of that year her father was alone.

"I wonder why he didn't bring me back to the United States," the exclaimed finally.

this

"For the same reason that he took your mother out of country," Brent told her.

"I hate him!" Helen exclaimed.. "I never want to see him!"

Brent waited a moment for her agitation to pass. "I'm afraid we can't either of us make that possi- ble," he said earnestly, "unless we are to break a promise to your father."

"But I never promised," Helen protested.

"I promised, for. you," Brent ex- "Can you tell me that?" Helen plained to her. "You see, dear, said, half afraid that still some of before your mother's death she the story would be withheld from begged Charles to take you back to America and appert to her father her mean to tell you everything," once more to help you. I'm afraid Brent declared. Just listen, dear. she knew that poor Charles was Remember one night several weeks scarcely the man to bring up a ago when I came up to see you at motherless girl and provide for school and we dined at the inn her in a proper way. But Charles You said then that you weren't was too bitter to comply with her even sure that your name We request It preyed on his mind, Helen Page." He paused, to give however, and when he knew he was weight to his next words. Helen near death itself he sent for me remained silent.

"Well," he said slowly. "It isn't fand asked me to fulfill her wish." "But you didn't," Helen Inter- You aren't Helen Page. Only your jected swiftly, "and I don't see middle name is Helen, Your father took the name of Page so that your why we should do it now. grandfather your mother's father

would find it more difficult to lo-time, cate him and your mother."

"Why?" Helen cried.

Your father gave me plenty of

Brent soothed her. "He. wantd to put it off as long he pos- sible, and my assurance that I "Because your grandfather is an would give you a fitting education old tarter, my dear girl, and your ensed his mind about not sending' father had incurred his wrath by you to your grandfather while you. marrying your mother, You see he were a baby: No doubt he feared

(To be Continued.)

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