CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 10

CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

CLIVE BROOK IN "SLIGHTLY SCARLET." Since their appearance together in "Interference," Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent have not'been teamed in a talking picture, but judging from the success of their second Ventura together, "Slightly Scarlet,"-it will not be a matter for wonder if they form a team as formidable m Brook and Chatterton. "Slightly Scarlet," a romantic melodrama of bewSdering •urprisea, will open a season at Crystal Palace Theatre next week, for which'the box\plans are already on view at Tie Bristol Piano Company. In "Slightly Bckrlot," Miss ■Brent plays a social climber who industriously "operates" the fashionable European world with a view to annexing, not only their good graces, but. their more tangible possessions as well. Clive Brook, in - his turn, has the role of of a man of mystery, a dash of everything in his mpke-up, and ho and Miss 'Brent,' in ths more dramatio phase® with which the picture abounds, are seen and heard in some smashing scenes. "Slightly Scarlet'** may bo described as a comedy of manners and moral* and the teeseni* of Clive Brook in the cjisi of* such a play ensures its immediate success. It is indisputably one of, the. best talkies this actor has made.

"SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE." A screen version o! Barge's wm-play. "The . Old. Lady Slio'vs Her Medals," is showing at the Crystal Palace this week. J'Seven Days' Leave" Is a talking picture ■with character in it. Thus much o£ the chirm and atmosphere which Barrie wrote into his p.lay has been, rotained in the pic* tare. Beryl- Mercer, who will be remembered for her part in ' 'The Three Dive Crhoßts," plays the part of Sarah Ann Dowey,' the charwoman.