ST. JAMES
“ROOKERY NOOK” There is not a, dull moment in "Rookery Nook,” at the St. James Theatre. Ben Travers, prince of English humorists, is a pastmaster in the art of creating the most amazing situations, and sine© in most cases he skates on extremely thin ice, it is only natural that his stories keep one in shrieks of laughter, and “Rookery Nook” is no exception to the rule. That engagingly English atmosphere, purity of language, and simplicity of humour and dialogue which distinguish all Mr. Travers’s farces, have been incorporated in this alltalking film in a manner which makes on© shudder involuntarily for the future of the stage proper. Miss Mary Brough, Mr. Tom Walls, and Mr. Ralph Lynn make the very most of the principal parts, rolling off the tip of their extremely facile tongues all that is brightest and most humorous in the playwright’s inimitable dialogue.
“Tho Front Page.” with Louis Wolheim as the managing editor, is Howard Hughes’s next production following the release of “Hell’s Angel’s.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1031, 23 July 1930, Page 17
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170ST. JAMES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1031, 23 July 1930, Page 17
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