Family Affair.
The vogue of biographical drama still continues with varying box-office success. We are now going to have a play about Mrs. Siddons, the famous actress whose emotional power was such that it is said she even thrilled shop-assistants when ordering goods. Naomi-Royde-Smith is responsible for this Siddons play, and the actress who will have the enviable yet testing role of Mrs. Siddons is to be Sybil Thorndike. The play deals chiefly with Mrs. Siddons’s lodgings and her Drury-lane dressing-room, and her association with the painter, Thomas Lawrence. The two Siddons daughters will be played by Mary and Ann Casson, the daughters of Sybil Thorndike, which is certainly appropriate. Eric Postman will enact the young painter, and John Laurie will be Philip Kemble.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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124Family Affair. Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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