"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 4

"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

COMING TO REGENT THEATRE. The story. of "Great Expectations," which' will never grow 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 allthe resources of the novelist's art.. The picture, "Great" Expectations," comes.,to the Regent Theatre next Friday. For this great Dickens classic Universal have made faithful replicas of the scenes, and sets in the story were obtained at great cost and much trouble, inasmuch as many valuable pieces of furniture, bric-a-brac, etc., of almost 100 years ago can no longer be found. It is interesting to note" that Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" the 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 in the chalet that he did most of his writing. His stalwart-figure was a familiar sight as he tramped through the Kentish lanes he loved so well, with his dog ;Gurk, the mastilf, 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 Magairie" and ran serially during 1860-61. Universal assembled a distinguished cast including Henry Hull, recognised as America's greatest interpretive actor, Philip Holmes, Jane Wyatt, Florence Reed; Alan Hale, George Breakstone, and Francis L: Sullivan.