"THE GREAT DAY."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 6

"THE GREAT DAY."

Of all the available actresses of the British stage Marjorie Hume was chosen as best qualified to play tho feminine lead in “The Great Day,’’ a superb British-made Paramount production, which will commence at the Empire Theatre this afternoon, and thereafter twice daily till Monday evening next. This brilliant young screen actress has endeared herself to the British public and won the praise of the keenest of London critics. Miss Hume scored a big hit in the revival of “Milestones,” “The Man Who Stayed at Homo,” “My Lady’s Dressi” and “The Maid of the Mountains,” and it was during the run of the last named play that she first began to act for the screen. Miss Hume’s biggest screen success which has yet reached this country was “The Keeper of the Door.” The story of “The Great Day” was written by George R. Sims, and the male lead is sustained by the well-known English actor, Arthur Bourchier. There are many scenes actually taken in France and the Alps, and and a very realistic scene is that taken in the underworld cafe along side the Seine in Paris. Tho plot deals with a little group of human lives, some loving, some hating, some sinning, some aspiring, caught in the clutch of circumstances and whirled through amazing adventures upward and downward, each to one “Great Day.” When shown at Drury Lane the play waa a recordbreaker, and tho picture is expected to be even more successful.