MARY PICKFORD AT THE KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 37, 14 February 1916, Page 3

MARY PICKFORD AT THE KING'S THEATRE.

■Mary Pickford, who has been named "The World's Sweetheart," will be seen at .the King's Theatre to-night in a 6000 ft. feature .film..by., t,he ..famous Players' Col, entitled. "Rags." ; ;,On Miss Pickford's popularity and. winsome charm and undoubted talent there is no need to enlarge. It has been said that, ".'JfcagsV enables the clever,.actress, to show her remarkable .versatiljty as perhaps no other pioture has done. As the sad little woman whose choice of. a husband had , turned: out so disastrously, Miss Pickford is said to present: an appealingly pathetic study in the prologue, and then, as the story moves on sixteen years, as the little, " Rags,", the waif of the towrij with a drunken father who needs her care, and for whom she ,is ready to fight all and sundry; a friend to all the 6tray dogs-and a terror to the lads, " littlo Mary!' gives a vivid and forceful portrayal. Romance comes to the little outcast and happier days eventuate, hot' until,. however/, she 1 Has learned the hardest lesson—becoming civilised.'-. There- is a strong heart in-' terest, . and humour and pathos are cleverly intermingled. The management announce that there will be a special: matinee on ■■ Wednesday afternoon .at 2.30,. as •well- as the usual Saturday matinee. maj' be . booked for: to^ night at the King's Theatre or by telephone. ' '■"' ' ',' ' t '■'-. '"''...■:'