KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 4

KING'S THEATRE.

Mac Murray, in " The French Doll," is now screening at the King's Theatre, and is meeting with great success. The picture is. the finest in "Mac Murray's brilliant career, whilst the clothes and jewellery worn cost a, fortune. An added attraction is the mannequin parade, in a, bevy of Wellington's most beautiful girls display evening gowns, upera cloaks, afternoon frocks, and furs. The last two nights are announced. Several weeks ago Sir Francis Bell and members of the New Zealand Forestry Commission attended a private screening o£ the Paramount-Metro picture, " Hearts, Aflame," wh,ich is adapted "to the screen from the novel "Timber," by Harold Titus. The management of the King's Theatre is now proud to announce the fact that this great drama, is tp- be screened next Friday. It is a. vigorously -vivid d.rama of the Michigan timber lands, in which the central character is a young girl, played by Anna Q. Nilsson, who is fighting and striving to hold her forest lands, inherited from her father, from the hands of two great timber magnates. She is assisted in her fight by the son of one of the men who is, plotting against her. Lite boy's father, who has ma^le his way in the wprld by hard work, is sceptical of his sop's capabilities, but when he learns that the boy is out back in the great timber forests, and offers to sell U ; his father a great quantity of cut timber at a pri.ce that " dad can take, or leave," the old man's pride for his son'is unbounded. A most spectacular event is. the .great forest, fire, in which twenty acres of burning pine are shown being consumed by the hissing, seething flames, through which a locomotive dashes. Trees crash pn every side, the flames .lick af; the window o.f the rac^ ing engine, as the girl clin'gs.Jto the throttle and pilots the train through a quarter of a mile of burning forest. A full supporting programme has been arranged, including a special musical programme to be rendered by the King's Select Orchestra. .The box plan is open at The Bristol; after 5.30 seats may be. reserved at the theatre.