“ROOKERY NOOK”
FINE BRITISH COMEDY The impression, gained with “Splinters” some weeks ago, that Britain is making a bold bid for talkie supremacy, was strengthened Recently when “Rookery Nook” was screened privately in Auckland. The general opinion, one gathered, was that the screen version was an improvement on the stage presentation of Ben Travers’s popular comedy. The screen provides more scope, and the only drawback is that laugh follows laugh so rapidly that some of the lines are lost. One of the players, Tom Walls, is well known in Australia. He ap pea red there years ago in “The Arcadians” and. other musical plays. Ralph Lynn who appears in the screen version is a. brother of Hastings Lynn, who played in “Rookery Nook” when it was staged .in Auckland. As unusually strong supporting east has been assembled for William Powell’s new talking picture, “For the Defence.” Kay Francis heads the cast which includes William Davidson, John Elliott, Thomas Jackson, Scott Kolk and James Finlay son.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 15
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