“PEACEFUL VALLEY.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18321, 11 August 1921, Page 6

“PEACEFUL VALLEY.”

“Peaceful Valley,’’ the well-known Sol Smith Russell success, which has a record ol 5207 stage performances, has at last ooen transferred to the screen, with Charles Kay, the popular cinema actor, playing the leading role in his favourite part of a ■‘hick." The production, which was adapted by Isabel Johnston from the stage play by Edward E. Kidder, will be the attraction at the Queen’s Theatre, commencing to-morrow. It is Mr Ray’s first release through the Associated First National Pictures as an independent producer. Jerome Storm directed the production, and orominent in the cast supporting Charles Ray are Harry Myers, Lincoln ijtcdman, Walter Perkins, William Courtright, Vincent C. Hamilton, Jesse Herring, Ann May, Lydia Knott, Charlotte Pierce, Melba Lorraine, and Ida Lewis. “Peaceful Valley” was for years one of the most popular- footlight attractions in America. Sol Smith Russell, playing the leading role, registered his greatest success in it. As a vehicle for Charles Ray, it is declared to be especially suitable, and in it is the "young actor is said to have done some of the greatest work of his screen career - . Ann May, the charming little motion picture actress, who has been Charles Ray’s leading woman in many qthcr pictures, has the chief feminine role. The box plan is at the Bristol.