ST. JAMES
Sparkling comedy, full of moments of thrilling excitement and romance, make the screen play of ‘ Three Live Ghosts,’ which is having a return season at tho St. James, unusual entertainment. Featuring Richard Arlen at the head of a fine cast, the story comes to the screen with a sweep and a breadth that were impossible on the stage, where it was very Successful. Dealing with the adventures of three soldiers who returned from the war to find themselves officially “ dead,” tho plot concerns their humorous wanderings through London without names or identities. One of them, Richard Arlen, is a wealthy American boy, who thinks the police are looking for him. The second, played by Charles M'Naughton, is a Cockney. The third, played by Claude Allister, is an English nobleman, who has been shell-shocked and has a mania for stealing things. Beryl Mercer as a Cockney mother is superb in the role she first created on tho stage. Dudley Digges, Nydia Westman, Jonathan Hale, and others of the cast contribute excellent performances.
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Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 2
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173ST. JAMES Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 2
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