FINE COMEDY-DRAMA.
"DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND" AT KING'S. With Richard Dix, Dolorps Del Rio and Chester Morris sharing the starring roles, Columbia's "Devil's Playground," a dynamic comedy-drama based on the exploits of the United States submarine fleet, will conclude at the King's Theatre, Stratford, to-night. Revolving about the unusual triangle of two navy officers, once inseparable, who part oyer the friendship of a voluptuous siren interested in neither of them, "Devil's Playground" turns its- . attention in a sensational climax to a spectacular crash between a huge, derelict ocean liner and a fully manned submarine. Dix, as the navy's ace diver, is probably the only man able to make contact with the sunken submarine, but refuses to try it. The events responsible for this dramatic situation unfold in. a rapid-fire succession of thrills, romance and actionpacked comedy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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134FINE COMEDY-DRAMA. Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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