EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.
"Quality Street" is the leading film .-•at Everybody's Theatre this week. ,It • has been produced with all the dainty English atmosphere of the oarly nineteenth century, and those charms of _ humour, pathos,' romance, and drama wlueh characterise Sir James Barrie's play ...are reproduced in the. screen version. The old maids of Quality ... otreet rrith their scandal and gossip are depicted with all the satirical humour which .nude them such interesting characters in ■> lu play. v ? stor y opens in a . delightful old Bngh«h town, and the love match between ■Phoebe Throssol and Dr. Valentine Brown i proceeds in exquisite settings that breathe -" Pj at its loveliest. Then comes 'be challenge of Napoleon's hordes to the raen of England, and the lovers are parted. *'e-passage; of years, apparently takes its of Phoebe's beauty and when "Dr. Jil ' , returns, it is to find Phoebe one of 'li maids of Quality Street. A happy . ending winds np a picture that is really exUaisite.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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162EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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