EMPIRE THEATRE
•'Let the People Sing” should provide entertainment .of a high order at the Empire Theatre to-morrow. The film is adapted from J. B. Priestley s heal twarming story, and the cast includes sucn popular screen artists as Fred Emney, Alastair Sim, Edward Rigby, Patricia Hoc, and Oliver Wakefield. Tom Tiverton (Edward Rigby), an old music hall comedian, and the professor (Alastair Sim), a visitor from Czechoslovakia, are, through no fault of their own, wanted by the police. They team up, and after facing a few hazards on the road, become friendly with Hassock, a travelling showman. and his niece (Patricia Roc) During a stay in a small town they find that some aristocratic busybodies are out to rob the people of their local hall. The culminating arbitration sequences reveal Priestley at his satirical best and there is not one dull moment during the screening.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25426, 6 January 1944, Page 5
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146EMPIRE THEATRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25426, 6 January 1944, Page 5
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