KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 56, 3 September 1937, Page 6

KING'S THEATRE.

Double-feature Programme. There have been many films of American sailors, some good, others bad; but none so good for a very long time as "The Holy Terror," which has been . transferred to the King's Theatre. Little Jane Withers, who is the star, gives possibly her best performance to date. She is the young daughter of an officer at a naval air base, and what she doesn't know about trouble can be taken as read.' All sorts of escapades can be traced to her. She is always threatened with' going back to school, but it never happens. It is necessary, however, to give Tier a sailor escort (Anthony Martin), but he is the one who has to be looked after. He is in love with Leah Ray. pretty proprietress of the '•Golden Anchor," a tea and refreshmerit house where the sailors congregate; and under Jane's encouragement everything ends all right. A secret aeroplane is being built at the base, and spies are on the job. They stage a riot at the "Golden Anchor," get the sailors barred, and when the owner closes down because of the loss of her income, use the tower of the building for photographing the construction of the. machine. Their undoing comes in the middle of a great air review, following a massed parachute jump ordered by Jane. The task pi creating thirty different foreign settings as background for a swiftmoving drama of spy intrigue was the job that fell to Wiard Ihnen, art director of Paramount's ''The Girl From Scotland Yard," the'story with Karen Morley and Robert Baldwin which is the associate feature. The script.de^ manded such widely-separated settings as a cabin of an English transport plane, the laboratory of an inventor, a lavish gambling casino, and the interior of a waxworks museum. Miss Morley plays Hie part of a girl who matches her wits and beauty against the depredations of a band seeking to destroy her country's armaments with a death-ray device.