KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE.

"Tho Taxi Dancer," featuring Joan Crawford, Owen Moore, and Douglas Ciinore is the feature now showing at the King's Theatre. The story deals with Joslyn Poo, whp goes to New York to seek famo as a dancer. She is quickly reduced to poverty, until she is befriended protects her from unwelcome attentiuns in her position as a "taxi dancer," and later rescues ardly admirer is Involved.' Then Rogers reforms, and the two are happily married. The supports are a comedy, "Feli.\ the Cat" cartoon. New Zealand scenic, and Pathe News.

"Tho Auctioneer,", the film version of tho stage success In which David Warfleld achieved his Brst famo under tho supervision of David Belasco, which will bo screened at the King's Theatro, with Georgo Sidney in tho title role, beginning on Friday, has an unusual history behind it. After achieving a sensational' New York run which made the young Warfiold famous, "The Auctioneer" played to enthusiastic audiences all over America. Tho picture, like the play, is said to run tho gamut of emotion from appealing pathos to subtle come«y, all resulting logically, from (ho motivation of the play. George Sidney, Marlon Nixon, and Gareth Hughes head a special cast.