OF ‘GRUMPY’ FAME

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 7

OF ‘GRUMPY’ FAME

CYRIL MAUDE IN NEW FILM Paramount’s first British picture, ‘ These Charming People,’ starring Cyril Maude, one of England’s best actors, who will be remembered for his sterling role in ‘ Grumpy,’ will be shown on Friday at the Empire Theatre. England has produced many fine pictures, but none so great or finer than ‘ These Charming People,’ according to the critics of the London papers. This is the first effort of Paramount at production in England since the inception mf talking pictures. Some ten years ago Paramount produced silent pictures in England, but the time was not ripe for such an effort, and the studio was closed after much money had been lost. Since talking pictures have come, however, a vaster field has been opened. The beauty of the English countryside forms the ideal background for the stories that are rich in the thoughts of England. The writers, the actors, and the richness of material from the stage have become available, and we now find that the first of these great stories to reach the screen is from the pen of Michael Avion. This young playwright took the world by sform with his satire of Mayfair people and society in ‘ The Green Hat ’ and ‘ These Charming People,’ writes a critic. The latter is the first British picture made by Paramount, and as the impecunious Colonel Crawford Cyril Maude, greatest of all English actors, plays a wonderful part. In addition there are Godfrey Tearle, Nora Swinburn, Ann Todd, Cyril Raymond, and a host of well-known and great English players in support.