EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY.
Two New, Features.
For the first time in his illustrious I career, Charles Laughton, in the role of the arrogant entertainer, of the London theatre queues in "St. Martin's, Lane.' which ha^ -r^' 'tr- "f->r • I from the city to the Empire Theatre, appears wi-thou! make-up of any kind. But by a clever combination of cpstume, he possibly looks more unlike Laughton than he ever has previously "St. Martin's Lane"' is-, an original story written for the star by Clemence Dane, and the cast is notable on account of the inclusion of Vivien Leigh, the young actress selected for the part of "Scarlett O'Hara" in "Gone With the Wind," Larry Adler, Gus McNaughton, Rex Harrison, and Tyrone Guthrie. The never-told-before drama of the heroic "Splinter Feet" is seen in ; "Submarine Patrol," the associate film, j The sub. chasers are a branch of the Navy that has received comparatively little notice and yet saw some of the most exciting action of the Great War. Manned by the strangest crews of civilian odds and ends ever to board a fighting ship, the "Splinter Fleet" provides a powerful dramatic theme, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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192EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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