"KLONDIKE ANNIE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 62, 10 September 1936, Page 5

"KLONDIKE ANNIE."

Regent Theatre Tomorrow.

Mac West has become an international institution and in "Klondike Annie," which comes to the Regent Theatre on Friday, she consolidates her unique position on the screen. No one other than a superb actress could make convincing the amazing characters in which Mac West specialises— and in which she exploits the manners and costumes of the nineties for the entertainment of the present generation—but the response of filmgoers the world over to her first pictures left no doubt that Miss West has hit upon a goldmine when she created a modern version of the alluring ladies of New York's golden age. In "Klondike Annie" the scene changes to San Francisco and Alaska, but for all that the spirit of the gay nineties is preserved intact. The story opens at a time when " 'Frisco Doll" is in sore straits. Indeed, for a few breathless moments it seems that the heroine is to be out of the story almost from the start, but she escapes with the murder of a Chinese to her record and takes refuge on a ship bound lor Alaska. As it happens, this is an unwise move, and it is not until the fugitive lady is, almost converted by the genuine piety and goodness of a woman missionary aboard the ship and has in turn become temporarily a missionary that an unexpectedly happy ending is reached. The film, of course, is primarily Mac West, but mention should be made of the work of the other members of tho cast. The most important of these are Victor McLaglen as the captain of Jhe ijhip^ and Helen J^jsome Eddr as te 3SJs^oß^gj| ... _