King’s Theatre.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 331, 12 January 1937, Page 8

King’s Theatre.

Showing at the King’s Theatre today and to-morrow is the story of a sturdy youngster with the faith of a child and the courage of a man, who goes in search of love and finds it in

the heart of a sour spinster aunt in a remote village. It' is a tenderly conceived story well off the beaten track of screen entertainment.

In the title role, nine-year-old Dickie Moore gives a superb pei-formance. He faces the world bravely, and with a wisdom beyond his years, helps further a romance that has not been going well. Elednore Whitney, who made her screen debut in “Millions in the Air.” plays opposite Tom Keene. Screen fans who know her only as a tapdlaucing sensation have a pleasant surprise in store for them in her first straight dramatic role. “Timothy's Quest” deals with a lad and his younger sister who escape from a couple trading in homeless children. The youngsters find a home with a grim spinster in a small village. Timothy, wise beyond his years .proves instrumental in furtherign a shaky romance between the spinster’s niece and her sweetheart. Beside Dickie Moore, Virginia Weidler, Sally Martin and Bennie Bartlett, aged seven, four, and nine respectively, have featured roles.