KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE.

A stirring tale of the way of sailors in the cast, where tbo ports gather all the scum of the earth, is told In "Scarlet Seas," at the King's Theatre. Donkln, a hard-bitten ship's captain, young In years, but his own master, steams Into a drowsy bay enclosing a typical eastern harbour with the solo Idea of taking ■away Rose, one of those whose feet are firmly planted on the primrose path, yet with all the bloom of the unplucked blossom. After a rough and tumble in a. very doubtful cabaret, he succeeds, and all appears to bo going well until tiro sinks his ship at sea, and of all the crew he and Rose alone survive. Aftor days in the open boat in a deady calm, they sight a ship with all sail set, and when they climb aboard dead men here and there tell of a mutiny. Down below tho crew 19 celebrating tho victory which Is to give them possession of a storo of pearls. It is Rose who makes It possible for Donkln to release the captive skipper, left allvo only because he can navigate, and the acting of Betty Compson, who pretends to be on the side of the mutineers while aiding Donkln, Is a wonderful piece of work, as Is her revulsion of feeling and her flinty callousness when she learns of tho presence on the ship of tho captain's pretty daughter. There is a good supporting programme.