CHARMING PEOPLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 294, 6 August 1932, Page 7

CHARMING PEOPLE

LONDON CRITICS CONSIDER FINEST BRITISH PRODUCTION. COMING NEXT MONDAY. England has produced many fine picturss but none so great or finer than "These Charming People," according to the critics of the London papers. This is the first effort of Paramount at production in England, since the inception of talking pictures. Some ten years ago Paramount produced silent pictures in England, hut the time was not ripe for such an effort, and the studio was closed after a lot of money had been lost. Since talking pictures have come however, a vaster field has opened. The beauty of the English countryside forms the ideal background for the stories that are rich in the thoughts of England. The writers, the aetors and the richness of mate-

rial from the stage, have become availahle and we now fmd that the first of these great stories to reach the screen is from the pen of Michael Arlen. This young piaywright took the world by storm with his satire of Mayfair people and society, in "The Green Hat" and "These Charming People." | The latter is the first British picture made by Paramount and as the impecunious Colonel Crawford, Cyril Maude, greatest of all English actors, plays a wonderful part. In addition there is Godfrey Tearle, Nora Swinburne, Ann Todd, Cyril Raymond and a host of well known and great English players in support. The picture will be one of the features of the season at the Majestic Theatre on Monday.