KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 10

KING’S THEATRE

Slang for the benefit of the uninitiated, if there be any such persons in the Dominion, is “language which takes its coat off, spits on its hands and gets to work. At least, that is how it is described by Gary Cooper in "Ball of Fire, which is radiating its irridescence for a second week at the King’s Theatre. Gary by the -way, is the leader of a group ot eight level-headed, hopelessly antiquated and ultra-good-living .professors who are engaged in compiling an encyclopaedia. Fve. or anv of her progeny, has never entered their lives. Woman, to one and all, is nothing more or less than the second part of a marriage contract. Xnd then, slap-bang into their unsullied existence, just as the moment they are preparing the slang section for their litework. there appears a real, honest-.to-gooduess "hotcha” baby from .a night club, complete with eyes, 'hips, ankles and vocabulary that would mystify anyone but a genuine product of the Bowery. Does she teach them slang—or does she' She does. She even teaches them La Conga Furthermore, -she teaches Gary Cooper how to love. Complications follow in the guisel of gangsters, police and publicity, -but once again the old saying that “Love will find a why” conies out on top. Barbara Stanwyck is the . lovely “Sugarpuss” which, translated into the vernacular, means “pretty face,” and well and truly -does she live u.p to the part. There is an especially good first half, with actual scenes of the Midway Island battle and a special E.P.'S. film entitled “Warden’s P ost.”