KING’S THEATRE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17930, 4 July 1930, Page 4

KING’S THEATRE.

A POWERFUL FILM. More iand more the happenings of the day, as printed in the newspapers of the world, are becoming the source of big motion picture plots. Where once the classics, the current plays and the current novels, formed the supply for picture producers—today a story on which a fortune will be spent is grabbed off the front page of a daily newspaper. A pertinent example is ' “Dynamite,” Cecil B. De Mille’s first talking picture, written by Jeannie MacPherson. “Dynamite” was suggested by two newspaper clippings. The first was a wired press dispatch, reprinted in a Los Angeles paper, which told of the marriage of a woman to Salvatore Merra, a condemned murderer, two hours before he hung. The hanging took place 'tit State’s Prison, N,ew Jersey. The second clipping related to the oas,e of a woman who bought another woman’s husband by paying a large sum in advance alimony, ft is on these two clippings that Cecil B. De Mille based the plot of the remarkably superior picture in which Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford and Julia Faye the principals, and now drawing large and appreciative audiences to the King’s Theatre.