THE KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 4

THE KING'S THEATRE.

Several distinct moral lessons, all told with; considerable force, and directed at many separate classes of the 1 community, are told, in " Idle Wives," shown, for tho first' time at The King's Theatre yesterday. The picture isa powerful one, and ite many human touches make it unique in every way. The/ first part is in the form of a prologue,' and introduces a riotous youth, a girl who rebels against home a ' povertystricken, hard-working family, each member of which is made quarrelsome, through misery, and a dhildless husband and wife, who aje drifting apart. Fate takes all this little band to the same " movie"; show to witness a picture called "The Mirror of Life," and such it proves to be, for. each finds'his or her exact counterpart on the screen. The story then told makes them all see the error of their ways, and in an epilogue the pleasing effect of the picture is depicted. They realise -what is,in store for. them if they persist in their folly, and so change their, habits. The leading role is' taken. by Lois Weber, who gives an excellent interpretation of a'difficult part, that of a wife who is denied the right of caring even, for her own children. " Idle Wives " will be shown every afternoon and evening until further notice.