"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 4

"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

COMING TO REGENT THEATRE

The story of "Great Expectations/ which will never gro^V old, is just as fascinating today as it was when Charles Dickens wrote it almost a hundred years ago. Nothing in-the whole range of, Dickens surpasses this great story of love, intrigue, and adventure, either in perfection of technique, or in mastery of all the resources of the novelist's art. The picture, "Great Expectations," comes to tho llegcnt Theatre next Friday. For this great .Dickens classic • Universal ■ have j made faithful replicas of the scenes, and sets in tho story were obtained at great cost and much trouble, inasmuch as many valuable pieces of furniture, bric-a-brac, etcii-of almostloo years ago can no longer be found. It is interesting to note that Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" tho year after he moved to Gadshill. He had a tunnel constructed under the highway leading from his house, to a chalet on the oppsite side. It was iv the. chalet that lie did most of his writing. His stalwart figure was a familiar sight as he tramped through the Kentish lanes ho loved so well,' with his- dog Gurk, the mastiff, at his heels. In these romantic lanes of Kent, called."the garden of England," Dickens thought out the story of "Great Expectations," which was first published in the "Household Jlagainb" and ran serially during ISGO-lil. Universal assembled a distinguished cast including Henry Hull, .recognised as America's greatest interpretive actor, Philip Holmes, .Jane Wyatt, Florence Reed, Alan Hole, George Breakstone, and Franpis .L. Sullivau j