PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 3

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Tr».v?» ~fasclnatln? Play, "The Faithful .nri. _-,^ c nul._ al story ot whlch Is beautifully acted by Edna Best In the delightful ro eof "Blackle" (surely one o?Ve _£_itf, ,h,_r? cter3 of _ths s_«en), Herbert Marshall __r«ht loTe. r and father ' anQ a strong sup- ♦ ,I De D cast ' gives flight-to all who see it at the Paramount Theatre. British Theatres in their time have staged many successful stage plays that have achieved world-wide success, and one. of these is !f mSKSL" 3*" Gb°Sl Train." o which begins a, Wellington season at the Paramount Theatre on. Friday. As a novel, the story was | widely read and was translated tatomw S" aif»f™_ Nef'-« a3 a play ' " captured Lonl don before starting out on Its memorable world s success, and within the last year It has proved Itself to be more popular than jlck- £,ih taf? g ?_= ture form- * Se-SS Jack Hulbert for the part of the "Silly Ass?' and Cicely Courtneidge for tbe spinster. Miss Bourne, Gainsborough scored a bull's-eye in casting, and the English Press is unanimously of opinion that "no other artists in England or elsewhere could have been found so weU suited to the roles." As a clean and clever comedian. Jack Hulbert has few equals and no peers, while Cicely Courtneidge, his clever singing and acting wife, aids her popular husband ln splendid fashion. The excellent supporting cast Includes those well-known Players, Donald Calthorp, Ann Todd and Angela Baddley. "The Ghost Train" is now in Its sixth week at Sydney, and it has just finished a three weeks' season at Auckland.