"MAN AROUT TOWN."
WARNER BAXTER FOR ST. JAMES'. The current programme at the St. James' Theatre, which is headed by the latest Joan Crawford picture, "Letty L.vnton," with Robert Montgomery in the male lead, will end to-morrow evening after a signally successful fortnight's season. Friday will ece an entirely fresh attraction screened. This will be Warner Baxter's "Man About Town," in the course of which Baxter is alternatively cast as a gentleman gambler, a secret service man and an ardent lover, all in the romantic background of official Washington, that most beautiful and English of all America's big cities. Warner Baxter, whose sterling performances in "The Amateur Daddy" and Janet Gayuor's "Daddy Long Legs" will not be forgotten for many a long day. is reported to give another typically good piece o: acting in this latest effort, although his role is not of quite the same type. He has to aid him in producing a good piece of entertainment. Karen Morlev. the feminine lead of the Barrymores' "Areene Lupin," and also Conway Tearle, one of America's greatest stage actors, whose most recent appearance was with Betty Stockfield in the British production, "Captivation."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1932, Page 5
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