KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 9

KING'S THEATRE.

"A Lady of Quality," the love story of Clorinda Wildairs, offers at the King's Theatre a splendid evening's entertainment, for the film is a very fine one. The story is adapted from,the novei and play of Frances Hodgson Burnett, a simple; yet powerful plot, and the latp seventeenth and eariy eighteenth settings, in the days of good' Queen Anne, are' magnificent. . It is largely tlirougb the wealth/ of staging, costuming, and lavish arrangement, in- fact, that the picture is rightly to be classed among really big films. The lead is taken by yirginia Valli, playing the part of a cirl raised' as. a boy because her father had no son, headstrong, : absolutely unconventional, later to have her dangerous mode of life changed by 'a f also love and again by a true lpve, while round the love theme is drawn a splen-' did picture of court and manor life of another day. ■ It is claimed of this picture that the great halls and furnishings are truo in every detail, that the costuming is exact to the very stitching of the lace ruffles, and whether that be so or not, there- is no. denying that the effect is both striking and grand. There are also good supports, a nonsensital Btfddy Messenger.comedy, and an International News Gazette. The King's Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. L. D. Austin, renders a special musical programme, the overture being . German's popular "Three' Dances," and the entr'acte, intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana.'' The programme of .incidental' music has been selected largely from composers of the period of "the story!