KING'S THEATRE.
"The Merry-Go-Round," which Universal believes to'be its worthiest cinema offering, comes to the King's Theatre this evening. It tells a simple love story involving the great tragedy of Austria, the downfall of its pretentious glory of the before-the-war days. The scenes are 'aid entirely in or about Vienna, the picturesque old world capital that once was the centre of European pleasure. The players are interesting individually, and include a newcomer for whom the critics predict the greatest successMary Philbin. She played just two important parts before "Merry-Go-Round." and neither of them was anything like as big as the leading role of the latter picture,-which is. that of a peasant girl heroine. Norman Kerry, who play? opposite her, has been marked by the leading critics many times as one of the really .promising younger men of the screen^ George Hackathorne plays a hunchback character more promisingly than any role in his past career, and liis artistry is generally recognised. Cesare Gravina, exquisite in technique and with;' Latin intensity, has a stronger role than'the one he played in "Foolish Wives." An excellent musical programme has been specially arranged for the King's Select Orchestra. The box plan is at The Bristol, after 5.30 at the theatre. . I
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1924, Page 3
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