QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 10

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Episodes identical with those in "Frivolous Sal," now showing at the Queen's* Theatre, are found in everyday life. A clever actor'at the bottom "of his profession because of his weakness for drink and cards, is the chief character, which is ..portrayed . by Eugene O'Brien. Roland Keene, a clever young actor travelling in the Western States of America, stops at a little town clustered about a big goldfield, after falling in love with "Frivolous-Sal," a girl who owns the local dance hall. Finally he marries Sal, but he cannot resist the temptation to drink, with the result that his wife is neglected, while he gambles and drinks away her money. A card-sharper and an acomplico gets Keone helplessly drunk, and makes him open the safo, where the winnings of the mine are deposited, and they steal the gold. When the robbers have gone Kecne becomes more sober, and makes one last attempt to redeem his honour. He chases the thief, and, fighting, they get into an aerial tramway, which takes them out over the valley where the town is built. Here a terrible conflict takes place, which ends in the criminal dropping to his death hundreds of feet below. Eugene O'Brien handles the part of Keene skilfully, and Mac Busch plays opposite him as Sal. During the evening an eccentric buck dance is performed by Phil Barry and Hazel Martin contributes a clog dance. A Gaumont Graphic showing the All Blacks playing England, a scenic, and a comedy are the supporting items.