'THESE CHARMING PEOPLE'

Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 13

'THESE CHARMING PEOPLE'

• ♦ CYRIL MAUDE'S LATEST 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 liner 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 of 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 lias been opened. The beauty of the English countryside forms the ideal hackground for the stories that are rich in the thoughts of England. The writers, the a'tors, 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 Arlon. This viiinig playwright took the world by stonn with his satire of Mayfair people and society in ‘ The Green Hat ’ and ‘These Charming People.’ 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. Ju addition there are Godfrey Toarle, Nora Swinburne, Ann Todd, Cyril Raymond, and a host, of well-known and great English players in support.