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MR. GEORGE ARLISS IN HIS MOST OUTSTANDING SUCCESS In a recent number of "Motion Picture," Herbert Cruikshank, a modern critic, worthy of the ancient and honourable name he bears, vividly portrays the impression made upon him by George Arliss in "Old English" to be screened at the Majestic Theatre on the 29th inst. . After a prolonged Hollywood diet of Mlle. Kane's boop-a-doop, Mr. Jolson's mammy-songs, Mr. Iagel Kiwanian's coonings, and the rhythmic cud-chewing of Contented Claras, God gav^metwent^cah^Mll^n^^
from the movie heayens. Here, after the hennaed highlights of Hollywood and raw gin aged, in the wood-aleohol, was lace and lavender and the rare aroma of amontillado. An "old English" atmosphere, if you like, with Milord of Beaconsfield, himself, monocle and all, blending perfectly into a background of shadowed mellowness. After all, one does not spend the first thirty years of life in Britain without becoming imbued with the conservatism of a country that has watched centuries come and go. And George Arliss is a eonservatives.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 153, 20 February 1932, Page 7
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