CIVIC THEATRE
SATURDAY AND MONDAY Noel Coward's latest "success, "This Happy Breed," has been brilliantly brought to the screen in technicolour and tells humanly, humorously, dramatically, the jsimple story of a family, and of I their lives in between two wars and, 1 how they go f orward in the shadow iof world events. One of the latter portrayed in (the films is the peace procession of ! 1919, and we see the troops of the victorious Allies marching past to the oheers and tears of the crowds. Amongst them - 4n the filmed scene proudly marched many a son "of a French father who marched in the original parade, for many members of the fighting French went to Denham for the day and donned the uniforms their fathers wore to victory, for t the shooting of the sequence. They found the puttees and the long heavy coats so different from .their modern free-styled uniform, especially as most of their day was spent marching up and down -the studio "road" wearing full kit! Yet to see them in "This Happy Breed" is to feel a throb of pride as we think of the great spirit that urged them to fight 011. Theirs is a great moment in a fllm of many great momente " Happy Breed."
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1946, Page 2
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