"ALF'S BUTTON."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 19

"ALF'S BUTTON."

A BRITISH PICTURE AT THEATRE ROYAL.

Wiiii the birth tho nevr era in motion picture production, the British producer®" har* found it necessary to keep jnst on© jump ahead of their foreiga competitors \vbarover possible. It is generally conceded that they have been successful in accomplishing thiß to a decree: they have produced what is claimed to be the most novel of musical pictures. ''Splinters," the greatest o! Comedy farces, "Rookery Nook," and the greatest talkie spectacle, "Atlantic." The colour sequences in the new British Dominions' picture, "All's Button/' cafmng to the Theatre Royal on Saturday, again onars "celluloid" proof that England is maintaining a high standard of consistency in talkie production. This is tho first time that colour has been used in a British talking film, and it is certainly a credit to the producers that should be unanimously acclaimed by the Press as a wonderful succee». "Alf's Button" ia an all-talking version of the silent picture, which took England by storm some years ago. The caat includes Tubby Edlin, the original Alf of the London stage production; Alf Goddard. Polly "Ward, Nora Swinburne, Cyril McLaglen, and Humbertson Wright.