PLAZA THEATRE.
"THE DEVIL TO PAY." One of the most entertaining and pleasing pictures that have been screened in Christchurch for some months, 1 'The Devil to Pay," is showing this week at the Plaza Theatre. It was probably the success of such' English comedies as "On Approval" which led the American United Artists company to secure an original play from that noted English playwright, Frederick Lonsdale. The result, in "The Devil Pay,'' must be welt up to expectations, for in it Lonsdale has most capably adapted Himself to the broader technique of the screen and written a thoroughly clever and amusing story of a family ne'er-do-well who returns to his people with a dog and a five-pound note. The dialogue is always bright and refreshing, and the acting of the play, chiefly by Ronald Colman (himself an Englishman), is all that could he desired.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20415, 9 December 1931, Page 9
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