KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 63, 7 December 1940, Page 15

KING’S THEATRE

Not so much a newspaper story as the title would suggest, but more of. the “thriller” type, made the more exciting because it is set on the verge of war —• war which breaks before the end-— “Foreign Correspondent” continues its season at tile King’s Theatre. The name of its director being as frequently on the public’s tongue as those of its stars, yesterday’s audiences, when it entered Hie third wook at tiie theatre, were just as large as during the first. The managing editor of the New York “Globe” is getting more than a little impatient, with the veiled stories, the its and huts of diplomacy, that are being cabled to the paper by the foreign correspondent. He wants some news. Tiie greatest crime of all time is brewing in Europe, and he hits on the idea of sending a tough crime reporter to cover it. Jones (.Joel McCrea) seems to be I lie num that is needed, lie is under the shadow of the sack for having assaulted a policeman “in the line of (newspaper) duty," just lite sort of man Io cope with Europe’s gangsters. and filled all the better for the job, thinks the editor, because lie knows nothing whatever about Europe. So Jones is re-christened with a bettersounding name, Huntley Haverstock. and packed off to London with a suitable English wardrobe in his grip. Once there, Haverstock loses no time in getting into touch with Van .Meer, a Dutch statesman of international repute, who has, so to speak, tiie peace of Europe locked up in his brain. From then on neither Ila verstock nor the audience has a dull moment. Often is Haverstock near dentil.