“QUALITY STREET”
GENUINE OLD FURNITURE More than 200,000 dollars’ worth of antique furniture and decorations are being used, it is , said, in Marion Davies’s film conception of Sir James Barrie’s play, “Quality Street.” Five rooms that are depicted in the heroine’s home in England, about 1805, have been furnished with antiques of the Georgian period. One of the first square planes ever made, and said to be very valuable, has been borrowed to grace the settings. The tables, chairs, cabinets and buffets are mostly Chippendale and Hep-
Wallace Beery, the younger of the famous Beery brothers, began h i s
stage career at the age of 22. He is a native of Kansas City and is six feet one inch tall. He has played in such notable successes as “The Four Horsemen of the Apoca-
bin Hood,” “The Sea Hawk,” “The Lost World” and others. Mr. Beery is a lover of out-of-doors, and his favourite sports are hunting and fishing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 23
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