KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 19, 22 July 1925, Page 10

KING'S THEATRE.

Love and comedy combine fifty-fifty in "Too Many Kisses," which ia the main attraction at the King's Theatre to-night and finally to-morrow. The story concerns pick Gaylard, the son of a mining millionaire, and shows how pretty women think him "fair game" as far as bleach of promise, actions are concerned. The popular actor Richard Dix is seen in the role of Dick Gaylord, and he is ably supported by a strong cast. There is a good supporting programme, which includes a Review, a Government Australian film, and a comedy «ntitled "The Lunatic." The King's Orchestra supplies appropriate music. "

"THE TOP OF THE WORLD." Picture-goers whose fiction reading includes the popular works of Ethel ■M. Dell will soon have the opportunity of seeing this author's greatest novel on the screen. A picturifiation of her widely read story "The Top of the World" was recently completed for Paramount under the direction of George Melford. It will be the main film attraction at the King's Theatre on Friday. Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, .Raymond Hatton, and Sheldon Lewis are the featured quartette of favourite players who appear in the leading roles. The story is a vivid melodramatic romance involving a girl and two men in darkest Africa. Briefly it concerns Sylvia Ingleton, the proud and spirited daughter of wealthy English parents. To escape a ]ovelee3 marriage she runs away to South Africa, fully determined to marry Guy Ranger, a childhood sweetheart, whom she hasn't seen for several years. Arrived there, she learns that the passing years have worked a great change in Guy. He is a .physical and moral wreck. Helpless and thousands of miles away from home and family, Sylvia is grateful to Guy's cousin, Burke, who makes her welcome at his farm. Shortly afterwards, to avert malicious gossip, Sylvia marries Burke upon the agreed understanding that they are to be just pals. What happens when Guy tries to claim her and she finds her heart torn between the old love and the new, and how in the end the husband and wife are reunited is dramatically developed in a series of tense, gripping situations that lead to a startling climax before the picture comes to a happy and satisfying close.