ENGLISH VILLAGE LIFE
Eden Phillpotts for many years has been recognised as a writer of successful novels and plays describing, with remarkable insight and accuracy, tho life of the rustic people of Devonshire. In “Wideeontbe Fair,” his first novel to be adapted for the screen by Briti-*° International Pictures, we see a panoramic picture of society in a small ' village. Kindly humour, clothes and frailties of the characters, and makes the natives of V idecombe and their ways always amusing. Captain Norman Walker responsible for the production of Tommy Atkins,” personally directed this picture. M itthew Betz, a well-known characMatiiie villainous role in heim in tho main role.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 15
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108ENGLISH VILLAGE LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 15
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