KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 9

KING'S THEATRE.

Tha intriguing title. "Adam's Rib," the leading picture on the change of programme at the King's Theatre, leads one to expect great things, and tha story as it develops is by no means a disappointment. The theme is not new, but for all that ifc ja delightfully interesting. The story tejJs of & woman of forty, who prepares to desert her loyal but commonplace spouse for th.c romance -which she supposes exists for her in the person of the dethroned monarch of one of those nebulous European States first invented by modern authors in their search for novelty. This intended indiscretion being known to her daughter, the latter makes a gallant . sacrifice to save her parent, a.nd in doing so gets fearfully entangled in her own love affair. The problem is solved by the husband and father learning of the whole eilly business, and getting rid of the ex-king by financing Ins return t o the throne, where everyone hopes he will be out of harm's way. The plot is a typical de Mille flight of fancy, as is also the amusing love scene set in a museum devoted to towering skeletons of dinosaurs and other ahtedeluvian monstevs, and the rather prehistoric dream scene, which is capitally <dnne. If this spene had little direct bearing an the story other than the connection between the title v .thmS s Jn the beginning," the thought was a dating an <i interesting ? ne V. TfteadW! Kotjjoff as M. Jaromir (ex-King- qf Morania) acts very -awl], and is picturesque enough to attract almost any silly woman. Elliott Dexta- has good points in his role of the youn? prof6«sor of .prehistoric fauna. A Pathe gazette also dipe into th e dim and dusty past by showing views of a crowd of Amenca n sailors viewing the en&^noe to. old Tutankhamen's tomb, in the Valley of the Kings. Mr. L. 5. Austin', fine orchestra w m abiding joy at this theatre.