KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 3

KING'S THEATRE.

The programme now showing at the _ King's Theatre has .as its principal attraction a strong dramatic play entitled "Merry-Go-Round." Cast in the sumptuous surroundings of Vienna, this story of an idle aristocrat, who falls in love with a little organ-grinder, portrays life in nil its characteristics. Count Hohenegg, on his ramblings through the Viennese amusement park, discovers the organgrinder. He -sympathises with her, and, cloaking his identity, he makes love to her as a necktie salesman. Agnes yields to the Count's attentions, but shortly afterwards the Count is forced into a court marriage. Events then move quickly. Part of the play is laid in the Prater, where Agnes and her father are subject to every oppression from the proprietor of a neighbouring show. In revenge, the ape takes advantage of the open door of its cage, and at midnight steals into the room of the cruel proprietor, and the reckoning is made. Separated from the man she loves, who has enlisted and gone to the firing line, Agnes decides to marry the hunchback, who has come into a fortune. The Count, however, who was reported killed, comes back to Agnes, and the two find contentment with one another. The cast is headed by Mary Philbin, as Agnes, and Norman Kerry, who assumes the role of the Count. The picture is well produced, and the lavish scenes are excellently photographed. The King's Orchestra contributes choice musical selections.