‘ABIE'S IRISH JOSE'

Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 7

‘ABIE'S IRISH JOSE'

SCREEN VERSION COMING TO REGENT Anne Nichols’s famous stage play, ‘ Abie’s Irish Rose,’ lias been converted to tho screen, and equipped with sound, featuring four important sequences with talking, and a musical score has been prepared for tho picture by J. S. Zarnecnik. the composer of the wellknown ‘ Festival March.’ This picture will commence screening at the Regent Theatre next Friday. Charles Rogers, Nancv Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and J. Farrell MacDonald carry the important roles with a supporting cast featuring Ida Kramer and Bernard Gorcey, who appeared in the original stage show in its remarkable run of five vears and a-half in New York. ” ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ is not, a farcecomedy. nor is it, a heavy drama. It is a cross between the two. and is said to ho told in a series of dramatic scenes to which a touch of (iomedy lightness has been added occasionally. Tho fom talking sequences are said to ho features of the production that will long he remembered. Nancy Carroll’s singing and dancing, with “ Buddy Rogers at the piano, is described as one of the high-lights of the production; and Jean Hersholt, in an intense dramatic sequence, is said to he startliing with Ins "motional acting.