"QUALITY STREET"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 315, 28 March 1928, Page 17

"QUALITY STREET"

BARRIE NOVEL AT MAJESTIC Tlie very few famous playwrights and authors who have claimed they were afraid to trust their writings to the mercies of the screen, will fjnet something to think about after seeing Conrad Nagel and Marion Davies in “Quality Street,” which will be shown at the Majestic Theatre on Friday. There is probably no other lamous play in existence demanding so much whimsical action in the delicate situations, yet Sir James Barrie, who saw his “Kiss for Cinderella” and Peter Pan” produced so successfully as motion pictures, did not hesitate to entrust his favourite work to Miss Davies. The character of Phoebe Throssel, so beloved to American theatregoers who saw the role played by Maude Adams is still the quaint and whimsical Phoebe through Miss Davies s wonde Sidney >r Frankiin, who directed Miss Davies in “Beverly of Graustark, and Norma Talmadge in “Smilin Through, handled the direction of the picture m a thoroughly artistic manner. The production, which was filmed by Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer, proves that a fine play loses none of its good qualities when correctly handled for screen production. * „ Conrad Nagel is the leading man, and the supporting character roles are taken by Helen Jerome Eddy, Kate Price, Marcelle Corday, Flora Finch and Margaret Seddon.