KING'S. THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 14

KING'S. THEATRE.

For those v&o enjoy a murder-mystery play "Black Maters," screened at the King's Theatre last night, should be just the sort of thing they; like. - Mysteriously summoned from a sumptuous cabaret with Its brilliant- lighting, bright music, dancing, love-making, and gaiety to a dark and eerie midnight rendezvous on a lonely wharf, threo young people—the heroine and two«.rivals in her ariectfons^-and.as many others find themselves on a murdership, which in a thick fog silently slips away from Its moorings out Into the tide. Ghostly happenings take place, thrill upon thrill., "Who and ■what is, Captain Tiger Larrabee?" is the oftput question that strikes fear into their hearts, as. one by one they disappear,' never to be seen again. A rstriking feature qf the play is Jeelo, the cannibal slave of Larrabee, with his deadly poisoned blow-pipe' darts, and the denouement, in which a newspaper sleuth plays a prominent part, is most unexpected. The supporting films include the Christy Minstrel comedy,-"Music Hath, Harms," a Fox movietone news reel featuring Some thrilling aeroplane arid parachute stunts, and the first Australasian Fox movietone news' reel, in which Mr. James H. Scullin, Australia's now Commonwealth Premier, is both seen and heard giving his ;post-elect!on message to tho Australian people. A. grand return season in Wellington will be -effected wUh,»,the- : screening of Paramount's highly successful dialogue and singing sensation, "The Innocents of Paris," ,at the King's -Theatre next Friday. Fifty girls appear in Hie Parisian revue, which is a spectacular feature of; 'Innocents of Paris," the Paramount picture, which introduces the famous Flench musical .comedy star, Maurice Chevalier.