AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 69, 18 October 1930, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

BLACK Vt'ATEKS. It was night time, and the uncanny lights and dim .shapes of the ships as they came up the 'Frisco harbour, through the dense tog, first inspired John' Willard, the famous play-wright, as hose stage successes, "The Cat and the Canary," and "The Green Beetle," ran for over a year in New York and London, to write the ingenious plot for his stage mystery thriller—"Fog/' When this play was produced, it shared an even greater popularity than it:* two predecessors, and' Herbert Wilcox, the famous English rodueer, was so impressed witn the story that he decided to- make a "talking" picture version of it. 'Phis resulted in the first International all-talking photo-play, "Black Waters," the absorbing British Dominions Film which will be seen at King's Theatre to-night,