KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 9

KING'S THEATRE.

. A great mystery ■ story is told in "Secrets of the Night," the main attraction at tho King's Theatre this week. Imagine a big house standing back from the roadway, surrounded by trees, and containing innumerable dark; passages, shady corners, and lonely rooms. It is the night of a large party. The place is brilliantly lighted, and the dancers throng the ball-room. They depart. The four bank directors drink a "nightcap,"- which the president says might' be their last, and they then retire, to their rooms. On the balcony one remains to talk for a few minutes with a fascinating woman, and then steps inside. Before his feet are across the threshold he measures his length on the floor, shot. Who> killed-him? - ; The answer to the question is to be found in the unfolding of the story. There are excellent supports, including a.comedy and a gazette. Special selections are played by the King's Orchestra. "Merton of the Movies," a novel by Harry Leon Wilson, and later a highly successful stage play, - has at. last, reached the screen "via ' Paramount; and will be screened at the King's Theatre next Friday. As a picture it is a delightful mixture of wistful drama, magnificent burlesque, anil keen satire. The plot is too well known to need retelling in detail. It. concerns an awkward country youth who is consumed with a desire to become a famous motion picture star. What happens to him when he goes to Hollywood, his trials, his earnest, pathetic strivings, his cruel disillusionments, and his final unsuspecting triumph, constitute one of the really great epics of the screen. Glenn .Hunter, who created the title role on . the stage,-is- also the star of the picture. Viola Dana has tho featured femiriiiic vole. .