THEATRE ROYAL.
——♦ ; "CHARLEY'S AUNT." j 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 trnai ° U When Brandon Thomas wrote tho_ 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 t0 plays the P art ° f th °^ D , t ; "from Brazil, where the nuts come from. His voice, his actions, and gestures, and his facial expressions, ore perfect for a pure farce .such as tins P'oturo is, and the situations in which he finds himself are ludicrous in tho extreme.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20225, 1 May 1931, Page 19
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