THEATRE ROYAL.
"CHARLEY'S AUNT." As a talking picture, "Charley's Aunt," showing at the Theatre Royal this week, is even better than it was as a silent film. Perhaps the best recommendation for the picture is the fact that the audience laughs throughout the entire screening, and is still laughing for many minutes after the final curtain. When Brandon Thomas wrote the play talkies had never been thought of, but it can be 'said definitely that the play gains rather than loses in merit by being adapted to the talking screen. Charles Haggles plays the part of the aunt, "from Brazil, where the nuts come from." His Voice his actions, and gestures, and his facial expressions are perfect ,for a pure farce such as Ihis picture is, and the situations in 'Which he finds -himself are ludicrous in the extreme. ...
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20224, 30 April 1931, Page 5
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