A Successful Calamity.
A now George Arliss picture Is always an event of importance to tho motion picture public, and "A Successful Calamity," his j latest Warner Bros, triumph, opening next I Friday at the Regent Theatre, promises to excel all of its excellent predecessors in popularity. The story deals with an American family of great wealth; a.great financier. Ills young and lovely wife, and his two grown children?;all-:0f, whom flnd themselves so busy with the].' pleasure and, duties imposed upon them ,by .their" money and position that no time Is left - for' the: enjoyment of real family life. For tho bcautlßcatlon of tho great home set for the picture, ;>Warner Bros, unrolled their choicest ■ possession, an enormous antique Bokhara rug. reserved by the studio for only special occasions. The great Oriental carpet, more than forty feet long, and measuring twenty-one feet across, is deep blood red and black In colour. It Is primarily a museum piece, but for the magnificent living room in the Wilton house. It fits the centre of the great drawiug-rodm to perfection. .■'■■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 4
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177A Successful Calamity. Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 4
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