BRITANNIA THEATRE.
Few motion pictures that have ever found their way to successful completion have been.attempted on the seals with which the United Artists film "Down to the Sea in Ships," which has been transferred to the Britannia Theatre for a further week's showing after a record season St the Paramount Theatre. The story concerns the chequered love affairs of Patience Margan (Marguerite Oourtot), a beautiful Quakeress, and Allen Dexter (Raymond M'Kee). Allen is not welcome to the stern Quaker father, because he is neither a Quaker nor a whaleman, and if is the young man's endeavour to overcome these difficulties which supplies the theme of the story. Real sensations occur in mid-Atlantic on board a. whaler, where thrill after thrill is. depicted, culminating in a ninety-ton whale, lashed to fury by a deeply-em-bedded harpoon, attacking the whaleboat and smashing it to piepes and sending the crow high into the air. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 10
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151BRITANNIA THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 10
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