ST. JAMES
“ROOKERY NOOk 3't is pleasing indeed to find that clean and clever English humour, transferred from stage to screen, offers such bright entertainment as that provided in “Rookery Nook,” now in its third week at the St. James Theatre. Tom Wall and Ralph Lynn, two of England’s foremost “Smart Set” comedians,” are most happily cast as the cousins, Clivo and Gerald Popkiss, and tho real honours of the production are credited to the latter, whose “silly ass” type of humour is both broad and subtle, as befitting the part. Wall, as the cynical cousin, makes the most of his somewhat restrained part, and the work of the rest of this talented company would have it appear that they were selected as being most fitting to tho respective characters —as they certainly are. All the supporting people being worthy of most honourable mention, they are Robertson Hare, Ethel Coleridge. Griffith Humphreys, Doreen Bendix, and Margot Graham. So just earmark all people, together with the principals, for future reference, as being most talented and thorough artists.
A brilliant talkie supporting programme completes a fine entertainment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1042, 5 August 1930, Page 15
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185ST. JAMES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1042, 5 August 1930, Page 15
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