PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 3

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Although' "The Frightened Lady" is a particularly fascinating, story, and the late William Archer wrote of it as "Edgar Wallace at his best,", and/it: is unquestionably that.it is the remarkably flno: acting of each and every member of the-long cast in'the picture now at. th<c .Paramount-Theatre -that makes the deepest impression on spectators. Work of so high.a standard has but rarely been seen on the stage .or. screen. Norman ■ McKinnel, Gordon Harker, Belle- Chrystall, Cathleen Nesbit, and Emlyn Williams present fine characterisations. ■

Victor Savllle, the, English producer who dellrhted the amusement' world with "Sunshine Susie," is said'to have won even greater kudos from the critics as a director, of talking productions through his masterly translation to the screen of Monckton Hoffe's stage play, "The Faithful Heart," which- is described as a triumph in. skilled ■ film direction/ Hoffe's Play made something of a • sensation when played in London in 1921, yet it Is claimed that the screen, version- is superior to the legitimate presentation. The cast is a notable one, every artist being an English stage star. It includes. Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, the popular screen lovers, Mignon O'Doherty, Lawrence Hanray, Anne Gray, and Athole Stewart. Box plans are at the Bristcl.