CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 15

CIVIC

—: — | “SO THIS IS LONDON” The fascinating film. “With Byrd at the youth Pole,” will have its final presentation at the Civic Theatre this evening, together with the accompanying programme of music and pictures. Tomorrow the Civic will show the Will Rogers’s comedy, “So This is London.” Just teeming with wit, as would be expected from Rogers, it has too its philosophic side, for it gives him an opportunity to discuss with Lumsden Hare, who plays the role of a titled Englishman, the inability of people of difierent race to arrive at at complete understanding. The discussion reveals the fact that people of all races, when get beneath the surface, may easily arrive at the point of goodwill and understanding and, quite apropos, that is a subject which Rogers has well handled in his numerous writings for the Press of America. To those who so thorouhgly enjoyed Rogers’s first audible production, “They Had to See Paris.” the seemingly unbelievable has been accomplished in his second production, for it is acclaimed in preview's as far more entertaining than his first. Rogers portrays the role of. a wealthy mill owner of Texas, who is urged by his wife and son to make a trip to England for the purpose of purchasing a cotton mill there. They accompany him. Rogers is a thoroughbred Texan with a keen dislike of anything British or savouring of England. On shipboard his son finds a romance with a young Elnglish girl and this, of course, brings chaos. After a series of hilarious scenes. Rogers eventually purchases the mill, straightens out his son’s love affair and decides that Britons are “pretty good folks” after all. Irene Rich, the adorable, is again Rogers’s screen wife, and this time Frank Albertson is his screen son. Other members of the cast include Maureen O’Sullivan. Alary Forbes, Lumsden Hare. Dorothy Christv and Bramwell Fletcher.