CIVIC THEATRE
TO -NIGHT & MONDAY NIGHT Noel Coward's latest success, "This Happy Breed," has been brilliantly brought to the screen in technicolour and t-ells humanly, humorously, dramatically, the simple story of a family, and of their lives in between two wars and how they go forward in the shadow of 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 cheers and teat;s of the crowds. Amongst ihem Jn 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 Iwent to Denham for the day and donned the uniforms their fathers wore to victory, for 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 on. Theirs is a great • moment in -a film of many great moments . . . "This Happy Breed."
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1946, Page 2
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