Miguel del Vayo...... Raymond Massey Peter... e Romney Brent Christine doeg, Bland Mrs, Stanway Sydney Fai..rbrother Sir Rotert Blake Felix Aylmer Dr, Wilson "Fisher White Impres: ario Charles Carson Butler Bruno Barnabe
The Philosopher Donald Calthrop His Friend. Ronald Shiner Policeman... Cyril Raymond The Rescuer Georg? Carney Some very good colour photography is to be seen in "Popular Science," one of the preliminaries shown last night at the Nanking Theatre, where some interesting scientific facts are shown in natural colour to make them all the more engrossing, while a Mickey Mouse picture "Mickey's Elephant," a most engaging and winsome creature, provides a number of very happy moments, Miss Elizabeth Bergner in "Dream ing Lips," is again the polished actress the world has come to believe her. She is not the Shakespearean Bergner, though as Gaby she uses many of the tricks which characterized her more serious presentations, and she sketched in the part of a wife who wanted to eat her cake and have it, with most disastrous results, in an altogether convincing manner. In this she was ably seconded by Mr. Raymond Masse as Miguel del Vayo, her lover, and"Mr. Romney Brent as her husband, Indeed the latter's performance was most pleasing, while the former acted the strong determined lover to perfection.
Miss Bergner's part was by no means an easy one. It could, by Jack of restraint, be very easily transformed into sheer bathos and the fact that she was able to steer it clear of the rocks and the fact that she was able to steer it clear of the rocks of that nature which threatened it, is probably the best tribute to her consummate acting, though its perfection sometimes leaves the impression that it is not a new character that she is' playing, but The Bergner in a different rôle. She seems to have stylized her personality in very much the same way as quite a number of other cinema actresses. The production of Dr. Paul Czinner throughout was very good and the photography
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