KING’S THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 11

KING’S THEATRE

“MANTRAP.”

Reversing the usual process and going from flapper to comiire girl is the step taken by Clara Bow in “Mantrap,” Paramount’s latest picture, which is now showing at the King’s Theatre. Miss Bow begins us a typical jazzy flapper, working os a manicurist in a Minneapolis barber shop, whose job consists principally in making herself agreeable to “butter and egg men.” Then along comes “Joe Easter,” played by Ernest Torrence, the principal character at a Canadian trading post who has come to the “big city” for tho first time in 15 years. He is so unusual that in a sudden whim she can think of nothing else but his outdoor way and strong, manly kindness. Before she knows it they are married and settled in the North Woods. Percy Marmont. a young New York lawyer, goes there because he wants to get away from the women who are his principal clients in divorce cases. But he finds himself enmeshed in a love intrigue with Miss Bow. The supporting programme, coupled with excellent orchestral music, includes a gazette, cartoon, and a comedy.