KING’S THEATRE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17660, 10 August 1929, Page 4

KING’S THEATRE.

“WHEN DUTY CALLS.”

At the King’s Theatre to-night iff the Eric Waschneck production, “When Duty Calls,’’ featuring Rudolf Rittner and Helga Thomas.' The film is a gigantic story of the firefighters. The .story tells how an ©ld man is discharged from the fire service oq account of an injured knee received irt a train! smash. After failing in a theory test, he is forced to find w«rk elsewhere, but it is when the theatre at which his daughter works catches fire, that lie proves that experience triumphs over theory. There is also a spice of love interest, introduced into the picture, jvlien Lore, the daughter of the fireman, falls in love with-the Lieutenant, who caused her father’d dismissal. Complications arise but in the end the two men shake hands. This is a picture than lovers of action cannot afford to miss.

“Captain Lash” is in town, stopping at the KingV> Theatre, where, at many intervals, and for more than an hour -at l a time, he is to provide some real love-making and some thrilling two - handed knock - down, drag-out fighting. “Captain Lash.” is Fox Films’ newest starring production for Victor McLaglen. of “"What Price Glory?” fame, and it is a whale of a picture. McLaglen, in the name part, is called Captain Lash, because lie drives his men in the stoke hole of an ocean liner like a human whip. Off duty he is a gav Romeo or a fighter as the mood seizes, him. As usual, a girl—Claire Windsor—gets him in her power, and thus into .aseries of exciting situations from which he finds it hard to extricate himself.