KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE.

There is something fascinating about a song writer trying to market a popular' song, especially when presented in such a gay, lilting manner as in Laura La Hantc's feature comedy, "Thanks for the Buggy Hide,"'which heads the double feature programme, which will be shown finally to-night at the King's Theatre. This picture is one of the finest of Miss La Planto's, and is a rare combination of rollicking farce and a struggling, youthful love story. Miss La Plante again proves herself to be ono of the screen's leading comediennes. In the romantic sequences she is as 'beautiful as ever. Glenn Tryou, who is a comedy star himself, shows that quality of youth and spontaneity which should, In a short time, make a matinee idol of him. Tho story itself is well done, admirably suited for the cast and thoroughly entertaining from fade-in to fade-out. Tho. second feature, "Jazz Mad," stars Jean Hershblt, supported by Marian Nixon and George Lewis. Played in tho remote districts of Mexico's back country, "The Showdown," which opens to-morrow night at the King's Theatre, finds George Bancroft playing the role of a wandering oil driller. Into his life comes three men who have followed him from ono field after another, because they know ho' has a' sixth sense which tolis him where oil can be found. As the. struggle between Bancroft and his rivals settles into grim and deadly earnest, a girl suddenly arrives, fresh from the refinements of New York. The situations which' develop from Ihe presence of the girl in this wild spot form a drama from whicli Bancroft's genius as on actor shines with oven greater lustre than in "Underworld," "The Hough Itiders," or "Old Ironsides." Heading the supporting cast arc Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, Fred Koblc'r, Arnold Kent, and Leslie Fenton.