GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 15

GRAND

“QUALITY STREET” “Quality Street,” the screen adaptation of Sir James Barrie’s charming comedy, is now being shown at the Grand Theatre, with Marion Davies in the leading role of Phoebe Throssel. The Barrie play gives Miss Davies ample opportunity to exercise her talents as a comedienne, but at the same time it demands the pathos and drama in which this star is so rich. The settings of this picture are remarkable. The costumes are quaint and exceedingly becoming to Miss Davies’s blonde beauty. The play is laid in provincial England early in the nineteenth century. Conrad Nagel is the leading male player. “The Law of the Range,” a story of Texas 50 years ago, and starring Tim McCoy, will also be shown. One of the country’s greatest “stunt” flyers, now working in motion pictures, is playing juvenile roles instead of employing his aviation skill before the camera. He is Charles Delaney, who is now appearing in "The Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” a Universal picture. George Sidney and J. Farrell MacDonald enact the leading roles.