KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE.

Several weeks Pgo Sip Francis Pell tod, members of the Ngw Zealand ?f>?--*stry 'Commission attended a. private •creening of thg PararabanfeTMetra pier lure, ■" Hearta Aflame," which is adapt edto th§ screen iv^tn the novel !'Timber," by Harold Titus. \ The manager meat of tha King's Theatre is now proud to arinounee ■ the fact that . this great drama/ is trO be screened to-day. "• It i* a vigorously-vivid, drama oi the Mishi.gan timber lands, in which the central character is a young girl, played by Anna Q» Hilsson, whp is fighting and ittiving te hold her. forest' lands, jnr lserjted from.-her father, from tho hands of two g^reat timbe? magnates. • She is assisted in. her fight by the soq of one. oi the men who is plotting against hes : Ihe boy's father, who.has nia3e his way in the werld by hard wo^k, is sceptical of his son's capabilities, but when h.e' learns that the boy is out back jn the great timber forests, and' oiffera fg sefl p- : his father a' great quantity o| put timber at a price (that '■ dad can 'tefee or leave," tho old maa's, pride fcr in> bon. is unbounded.' A mast^spectacular, event is the great forest fire, in which twenty acres of burning pine are showji, being censume'd by the fiissing.. seething flames, throngh which a locomotive dashes. Trees crash on every side, the Dames lick at the windov{,df the racing; engine, as the' girl clings to £he throttle and pilots the train through a f[uarter of a mils ci hnrning forest. A full; supporting pregramme has been air ranged, including a special musical pror gramme te be rendere4 by the. King's Select Orchestra. The bos plan is eapn at; The Bristol) af^er 5 : 3 d seats may bs reserved at the theatre.. \