RIVOLI THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 5

RIVOLI THEATRE

A Laugh ton Masterpiece'i \- - - — { *\ • "Payment Deferred," the fiimisafcion of one of London's outstanding, stage hits, will head the programme ' commencing at the Rivoli Theatre tonight. Known as the mystery drama with the most startling climax ever . devSsed "Payment Deferred" tells the stor^r of a murderer who escapes detection' for his own crime only fo be' conviated later for a crime which he hot commit. The significant feature of'the play, both in its London and New York productions, was the sensational .performance of Charles Laughton as the middle-class London bank clerk who is driven to murder his rich nephew to save himself and his family from a^ debtor's prison. It is this same Charles Laughton who enacts the murderer in tho film version. Lcughton, whose distinguished work on the English stage has won him Ihe title of tli<r English "Eniil Jannings." makes his second appearance on the screen 111 "Payment Deferred." Maureen O'SuliiV van has the part of Winnie, Laugh ton's daughter, while the difficult role <i^ Ihe murderer's .wife is handled by Dorothy Peterson, who will be remembered for her excellent work opposite Walter Huston in "Beast of the City/ Yeree Teasdale, who recently scored in

'•Skyscraper Souls," has the part of a blackmailing French milliner, and the role of the murdered nephew is played by Ray Milland. The cast also in-ciudes-i Billy Bevan, Halliwell Hobbs, and William Stack. Among the picture's dramatic highlights are the scene in which.the bank clerk poisons his nephew; the tense moment when his wife discovers his secret; his constant terror lest the body of his victim, buried in the garden, be discovered: the suicide of his wife, and the bitterly ironic episode in which the authorities seize the bank clerk for a murder of which he is innocent, but which hn cannot explain without confessing his real crime. The associate feature will be none other than the famous "Naughty Marietta," starring Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy.

Sir Malcolm Campbell is building a bomb-proof dug:out Bft below the surface of his estate, Headley Grove, near Dorking' "My 'motto is 'Prepare for everything,'" he told a Press representative who watched him at work recently,