KING'S THEATRE.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17387, 27 March 1928, Page 4

KING'S THEATRE.

"THE" WRECK." If you like your screen melodramas to sizzle and speed along at a breathless pace, then you must not overlook "The Wreck," the new Columbia, production released by Master Pictures, which screens at the King's Theatre to-night. This story races by in exciting sequences to a happy climax and gives little Shirley Mason one of the best roles of her career. Miss Mason plays an innocent girl, duped into a false marriage ivith a crook, and subsequently held for one of ins robberies. Oil her way to prison, the train is wrecked and she is mistaken for the wife of a wealthy man. At his mother's home she recuperates and wins the love of the handsome hero. Francis MacDonald and James Bradbury junr., play the crooks, William Craft has turned .out an. entertaining drama, and no pieture-goer who likes his romance and thrills in generous proportions should miss "The Wreck.•" "A MAN OF NERVE.-' One of the most entertaining western dramas seen in a long time will come to the King's Theatre to-night only when Bob Custer's latest vehicle "A Man of Nerve" has its first showing. The star has been coming along fast in the past, and "A Man of Nerve" is a rip-roaring show, packed with drama and nicely seasoned with laughs. The story r which deals with the difficulties of Hackamore Henderson, a quaint cowboy type on the Fandango ranch, was originally called "Forty and Found," and was written for the Western Magazine by John H. Hamlin.