KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 34, 8 August 1925, Page 10

KING'S THEATRE.

The sacrifice made by a girl for her sister is portrayed in the picture entitled "Sackcloth and Scarlet," which is the main attraction at the King's Theatre this week. Taken from the pen of George Gibbs, the story deals with Polly Freeman, who, supposedly on a visit to her aunt, meets and falls in love with a guide at a mountain resort. They are married, and Polly uses an assumed- name. Fearing that the man is. below her station in life, aho leaves suddenly, and returns home. Some time later she tells her elder sister Joan, who makes every effort to save Polly's good name. Joan tweaks her own engagement and takes her elder sister to the Continent, where she brings up Polly's child. Polly, who is a selfish and self-willed .girl, refuses to have anything to da with the child, and its upbringing 'i 3 left to Joan. Joan later encounters her former fiancee, but makes no explanation, and,he leaves her. Polly's child grows up, and coincidence makes affairs complicated. Eventually the plot reaches ; a climax, which is a fitting conclusion ; to a powerful story. The cast ig headed by Alice Terry, ably assisted by Orville Caldwell, Dorothy Sebastian, Otto Matieson, and others. ■ The programme also includes a Gazette, a comedy entitled "A.Fat Chance," - featuring Walter Hines, and an Australian Government film showing the augar-cano industry. The music includes "Selections from Pagliacci" and "Dance from Othello" (Coleridge-Taylor).