PINERO FARCE FILMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 241, 11 October 1934, Page 9

PINERO FARCE FILMED.

WILL HAY FOR THE REGENT. Memories of the "good, old days," when musiclialls ' were musiclialls —and beer houses, too—are revived in "Those Were the Days," a British picturisation of Sir Arthur Pinero's famous stage success, "The Magistrate," which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. The story depicts the adventures of a genial old magistrate, Posket, who is inveigled into visiting a musichall by his precocious stepson, a "terrible boy" of 21, who is compelled to pose as 16 in order that His mother may take five years off her own age, and the subsequent complications that arise, culminating in the magistrate discovering that he has given his wife and her sister seven days without option for being mixed up in a disturbance at tlie musichall, with which he himself was closely (very closely) connected. In the role of Posket, W ill Hay, famous English stage, comedian, proves liimseif to be a delightful screen personality, and he receives excellent support from a capable cast, which includes Iris Hoe.v, Angela Baddelcv. Claud Allister. Jane Cair, Marguerite Allan and Lily Morris.. There are the fascinating old somjs atid acts of sucli artists as Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd and the other darlings of the Victorian-Ed ward iau vaudeville, and the atmosphere has been re-created -with fidelity.