“THE PERFECT SPECIMEN”
ERROL FLYNN’S NEW ROLE . Errol Flynn, the young Irish actor who leaped to fame overnight in “ Captain Blood ” a couple of years ago and then carried on with The Charge of the Light Brigade, “Green Light,” and “The Prince and the Pauper,” comes to the Regent Theatre to-day in a modern comedy-drama called “ The Perfect Specimen.” The story deals with an eccentric old lady possessed of many millions who has an ambition to see her grandson raised as an altogether perfect young man, and who for that reason supplies him with an abundance of tutors but keeps him confined to the limits of the family s vast estate. A young village girl--Joan Blpndell—manages to break into the virtual prison and meet the young man. She succeeds in getting him outside of his bounds, and he begins to understand and love the world without. The story was written by Saumel Hopkins Adams, author of “ It Happened One Night, and was adapted into screen form by the quartet of Norman Reilly Raines, Lawrence Riley, Brewster Morse, and Fritz Falkenstem. Michael Curtiz was the director. Curtiz is the same man who guided Flvnn through “ Captain Blood and “ the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 9
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