THE TALKIES.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17764, 11 December 1929, Page 4

THE TALKIES.

initial showing.

AT THE KING'S THEATRE.

The bookings for the initial showing of the new “talkies” at the King’s Theatre to-night is excelient.. By midday nearly the 'whole of ihe circle and the back stalls having been filled. Everything is in readipe.ss, consequent to strenuous efforts on the part of the manager and lii s staff, ihere is little doubt there will he a packed house. The whoile 5 programme is most attractive, the main picture beng “Dangerous. Curves,” w.th Clara Bow and Richard Arlen.

The scenes of “Dangerous Curves” —u.aid the excellent so..nd atmosphere as well, are those of a big circus. Miss Bow is the barer: ack rider in love w.tli Richard Arlen, a tight-rope wailker. Kay Francis is the vamp who gathers all of Arlen’s misplaced We to herself until the hero learns that Kay is false. Miss Bow displays vigour and enthuiasm of a new kind throughout the production. She appear as the .striving little trouper who is not satisfied with her success as a bare-back rider but who h|a<s ambitions in other fields. She practises courageously 'on the tightrope in order to be near the man she loves, .and finally wins laurels as a clown wire performer. Nothing of the old dizzy flapper attitude is shown in this picture. It is all substantial, characterful acting. In addition to Arlen and Miss Francis, splendid support is furnished by David Newell, Ar.ders Randolph, Mayi Boley, T. Roy Barnes, Joyce Comp-j ton Charles.T. Brown, Stewart Erwin and Jack Luden. In addition to these there is >a large company of circus “extras,” including clowns, trainer?, pot-wallopers, aerialists, barkers, venders and sundry others.

The picture is all-dialogue. It is the first dialogue picture with a circus background, and it will probably prove to be one of the best. ; . Don’t let this one go by.