KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 15

KING'S THEATRE.

Two Fine Films.

Combining a unique and baffling, plot with all the fast action and clever comedy of its predecessors, "Forty Naughty Girls," .whiqh opens 'at the King's tomorrow,' carries on the ad j ventures of those noted sleuths, Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegarde ' Withers, in a high-speed thriller. The new RKO-Radio picture deals with, a mysterious double; murder ■ backstage in "a Broadway theatre during the performance of a popular revue.'. While the.cigar-chewing Oscar and his school mann aide are trying to solve : the first killing, the second one takes place" right 'on the stage,. before a thousand spectators, and the story plunges into dizzy complications of motives and suspects before it reaches its'surprise ending. James Gleason and Zasu Pitts have the roles of the two StuartPalmer characters, Gleason enacting the inspector for the sixth time'ana Miss Pitts portraying,Hildegarde for! the second time. Marjorie Lord and' . George Shelley have theromantic'leada as a pair of juvenile ■ players in th» revue. A midshipman- who endeavours v to uphold the traditions of the U.S. Naval Academy, and a cadet who scoffs at them, clash with ejich other .until their love for the same girl :'■ brings about a series*of adventures ' which, eventually seal them 'in .friendship, according to. the dramatic story ■of "Annapolis Salute," the'-second feature. James Ellison is;seeivasi a-midshipman whose father, a petty!:officer ;. in;the navy, played by Harry, Carey, .is giving his, son the training advantages" iia himself missed as a younger man, while Van Heflin portrays'the role of a scion of a wealthy family who merely attends Annapolis to please a wil[lionaire grandfather.. Lovely Marsha1 [Hunt enacts the feminine lead as the girl whose visit to the academy during June Week disrupts the school in general and the two feuding midshipmen '•» particular. \