KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 10

KING'S THEATRE.

. "The French Doll" will bo seen finally this evening afc the King's Theatre, The picture is the finest in Mac Murray's brilliant career, whilst the flothes and jewellery worn cost- a fortune. An added, attraction is thp mannequin parade, in which a bevy of" Wellington's most beautiful girls display evening gowns, 6pe*a cloaks, afternoon frocks, and furs. Several weeks ago Sir Francis Bell and members of the New Zealand-For-estry Commission attended a private screening of the Paramount-Metro picture, " Hearts Aflame," which is adapted to the screen from the novel ". Tim-' ber," by Harold Titus. The management of the King's Theatre is now proud to announce the fact that this great drama is_ to bo screened to-morrow. It if a vigorously-vivid drama 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 ber father, from the bands •sf . two great timber magnates. She is assisted in hex fight ■by the son of one of the men who is plotting against her. Ihe boy's father, who has made his way in the world by hard work, is sceptical of his son's capabilities, but nhen he learns that the boy is out back-in the great_ timber forests, and offers to sell fr. his father a great quantity of cut timber at a price 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 pina are shown oeing consumed by the hissing, seething flames, through which a locomotive dashes. Trees crash on every side, the Dames lick at the window of the racing engine, as the girl clings to the throttle and pilots the train through a quarter of a mile of burning forest. A full supporting programme has been- arlanged, including a special musical programme to be rendered by the King's, Select Orchestra.l The box plan is opiin at The Bristol; after 5.50 sea.ts may be reserved at the theatre.