ST. JAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 17

ST. JAMES

“ROOKERY NOOK” The long season of “No, No Nanette” at the St. James Theatre will conclude this evening, and from tomorrow the St. James will present the great comedy, “Rookery Nook.” The leading players of the new all talking British talkie farce, “Rookery Nook,” are all “seasoned” actors and actresses, each and every one of them having had years of stage training and eX ßa^ph C Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter and an old favourite of the Australian stage, Mary Brough, have the leading parts in the picture. Incidentally. these same, talented stars played the self same roles that they are” now playing on the screen, on the stage of the Aldwych Theatre, London, where “Rookery Nook” ran for one whole year. Luring this lengthy period, 4U9 performances were given. As might well bo imagined, these people have their parts right at their respective finger-tips, a fact which adds to the general realistic atmosphere that pervades the whole film. Also, the histrionic accomplishments of Walls, Lynn and Misses Shotter and Brough, as well as other talented performers such as Robertson Hare, Ethel Coleridge and Griffith Humphreys, on the screen, must be an extremely large contributing factor to the complete ascendency which “Rookery Nook’ has over every type of audience. Altogether. “Rookery Nook” is far and away the most amusing comedy that the talking screen, or the silent screen, has ever shown us, and it is pleasing to note that it hails from England.

In the screen play, Winifred, as have Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Mary Brough, has her original role. So deeply does she bury herself in it that one can not imagine that she is anything other than a sweet, unsophisticated English rural girl. “Rookery Nook” is a feather in the cap of English producers. - . The programme will also include several new talkie featurettes.