“LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN”
AT MAJESTIC ON FRIDAY “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” the Ernst Lubitsch-Warner production for Master Pictures, which is coming to the Majestic Theatre on Friday, is regarded
by Lubitsoh as one of the moat: perfect plays ever written. In his direction of this film version of the famous Oscar Wilde play, he has of necessity discarded the brilliant epigrams of Wilde and substituted action. The audible wit of Wilde will be seen changed to the visible wit of Lubitsch when the T-.if'tnT-.. nni’Tis with
picture opens witn one of the most sparkling easts assembled for any production. Irene Rich plays Mrs. Erlynne, the sophisticated charmer who returns to London after many indiscretions, determined to enter society. 3day McAvoy plays Lady Windermere, and Bert Lytell Lord Windermere, whose marital happiness Ls tnreatened because he is kind to the fascinating Mrs. Erlynne. Ronald Caiman (bv arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn) will be seen as Lord Darlington, whose love for Lady Windermere snd whose schemes to separate her from her husband, are frustrated by the fascinating Mrs. Erlynne. Edward Martindel plays Lord Augustus. and Helen Dunbar. Carrie Daumery and Billie Bennett are seen as three duchesses.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 161, 28 September 1927, Page 15
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