THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19929, 16 May 1930, Page 9

THEATRE ROYAL.

A novel and interesting plot is only on* of many advantages possessed by "Dynamite," the film at the Theatre Royal this week. A young lady is left an immense fortune by hot grandfather, on condition that she marries before her twenty-third bitrhday. This has happened before. The young lady, however, discovers an entirely new way of avoiding the letter of the testament. Hearing that a murderer, about to be executed, is offering his body to science for 10,000 dollars, the money to be spent on the education of his little sister, she hastens to his side, and offers him a like sum if he will marry her. Willingly he expresses a wish that the ceremony at once be consummated, and the two are made man and wife. But fate conspires to spurn the woman and exalt the man. Somebody 'else confesses to the murder, and the murderer is released. The complications that follow this extraordinary commencement are endless. The young lady, despite her upbringing, shows little strength of character in facing the situation. As the murderer husband of the young lady is a- miner by occupation, a coal mine and an attendant tragedy form no little part of the story, while the young lady's wealth. affords the opportunity for an enlightening series of scenes in which the wealthy are shown at play. The players who make of this film "Dynamite" such a success are Kay Johnson, who takes the part of the young lady—Cynthia Crothers is her name—and Charles Bickford, whose acting as Hagou Derk, the miner, is distinctly virile. The young lady's fiance, Roger Towne, is represented by Conrad Nagel.