ENTERTAINMENTS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE. A stirring drama is brought to the screen in “Anthony Adverse',” the picturization of Hervey Allen’s best selling novel, which has commenced a twoday engagement at the St. James Theatre. The cast of the Warner Bros picture is a sort of roll call of the nations with England, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Ireland, Denmark, America and Canada, represented. Varied type are required in a story that is laid in five different countries on four continents with nearly a hundred speaking parts. England is represented by Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Louis Hayward, and Leonard Mudie, Denmark by Gale Condergaard; Spain by Luis Alberni; Ireland by Henry O’Neill; Russia by Akim Tamiroff; Canada by Donald Woods; France by Matilde Comont; Italy by Rafaela Ottiano; and America by Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland and Anita Louise. “Anthony Adverse” is a dynamic production, filmed on a. huge scale. March has the stellar role in a cast of 98 speaking parts and 2550 extra players. Mervyn Leßop directed the picture from the screen play by Sheridan Gibney. Opera sequences were staged by Natale C’nrossib. The film takes 21 hours to run.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 129, 14 March 1939, Page 2
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