Regent Theatre
"The Courtneys of Curzon Street," showing at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and Monday, is the story of three generations of the Courtney family, and commences at a minute to midnight on New Year's Eve, 1899 and ends in 1945. It is a domestic love story of a London family set against a backgrdund of the first 45 years of the present century. Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding are together again. He as Edward Courtney, a lieutenant in the Guards, and she as Catherine, his mother's maid whom he marries in 1900 to the disapproval of Victorian society; After a time, she feels she is ruining his military career and leaves him to go to Ireland where their son is born. She and Edward do not meet again until 1914 when she is in France entertaining the troops. They find they are still in love and resume their married life. He meets his son then for the first time. From then onwards the story embraces the- lives, and the events in the lives, of the Courtneys, their son and grandson and culminates at the ehd of libstilities of the 'recent war,
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1949, Page 4
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193Regent Theatre Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1949, Page 4
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