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Show 'HUMORESQUE' AT LYRIC THEATRE TONIGHT . The picture at tho Lyric theatre la aptly called "Ilpmoresquo." It combines com-bines nil tho pathos and laughter that is in Dvorak's famous melody. Mora than any picture that we remember re-member seeing this season, It Is life Itself. "Humoresquo" Is a Fannie Hurst Btory. written with all of her deep knowledge or human brings of tho ordinary mould. The novel has boon transrormed with raro sympathy and understanding to the screen. Starting Start-ing with tho boyhood of a youngster in New York'e Ghetto, born with two masterful passions In hla breast lovo for hi mother and love for tnu-, ale the photoplay shows the child later as a youthful genius of tho vlo-i Mn entertaining royalty and giving n huge concert In New York for hlB own people. Then comes tho great Borrow that norms to forbid him ever pluyliiK a violin again. Uut In n wondorful manner the clouds aro, rolled by and ho and his fnlthrul mothei aro made happy. You cannot appreciate tho appeal to the heart that this slmplo Btory I makes until yon havo Been It. Lngt nlulit'i audlonce wnB proroundly ar-fected. ar-fected. Alma Rubens, Vora Gnrdop, Gaston Glass and Doro Davidson in tho chief roles nrc excellently cast. Frank Rorzago has directed the film with raro skill. |
