KING'S THEATRE
I The bi-weekly change of programme at the King's Theatre to-day introduces two feature films. First ' The Kingdom of YoiSth,' starring Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore, and the second, ' Greater Love Hath No Man.' In the former Jimmy and Ruth Betts are happily married for a while, but jealousy causes them both to be unduly foolish, and so they part company, Ruth with the idea of going to Count fiuval, a man who professes to love her. eHis resting on his yacht in the harbor, and Ruth puts out to the boat in a skiff. While attempting to board the yacht her foot slips, and she is precipitated into the water. Now, it is common knowledge that a person about to drown sees in a swiftly moving panorama the principal happenings of the past. And so Ruth Teviewed her married career while struggling in the water. Shortly after her marriage Jimmy had met Mrs Rice, a middle-aged widow, who had fallen in love with him, and had turned his head through flattery. She 'had schemed to win him away from his wife, and had pressed into 'service the Count Duval. Ruth, after she has seen all this in her mind's, eye, decides to drown, when Jimmy, who has followed her, plunges in to the rescue, ns does Count Duval. While waiting for her to regain consciousness they decide that to whomsoever she turns first she remains with. Ruth [revives, and turns to The management of the King's Theatre is silent, as to the identity of the man. Evidently only the screen will reveal it. A Keystone comedy, ' His Naughty Thought,' and a Gazette corn* plete an entertaining programme.
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Evening Star, Issue 17350, 12 May 1920, Page 6
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