KING’S THEATRE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13819, 29 March 1938, Page 5

KING’S THEATRE.

NANCY STEELE IS MISSING

Victor McLagleu. Walter Connolly. June Lang and Peter Lorre have the leading rules in ‘‘Nancy Steele Is Missing,” which screens at the King’s Theatre to-night and to-nior-row at 8 p.m "Nancy Steele Is Missing.” with its tense thrills of emotionlashing power, begins in the roubled days ol 191 < . with tin 1 disappearance* of the daughter of Walter Connolly, a munitions magnate. Shortly afterward. Victor McLagleu. whose knowledge ot the horrors of war has turned bun to ardent pacifism. gets invoiced m a. brawl with police and. ill the hysteria of wartime. he is given a two-year prison sentence. Framed in fellow prisoners as the instigator ot an, attempted gaol break. Mclaglen is sentenced to life. A shrewd cellmate. Peter Loire, suspects that the huge prisoner iconcealing a valuable secret. and when twenty years later, McLaglen is released for good behaviour. Lorre trails him constantly. In a tense, dramatic climax. Mclaglen attempts to restore the grown-up Nancy 3tec’o to her rightful father. whil< Lorre stops at nothing to get the penitent criminal out ol the way so that be luav substitute a fraudulent claimant of ' i- own. The maui er in which MeL.ml : redeems himself for the crome he committed twenty years before provides a. conclusion of tremendous emotional power.