POLISHED ACTING.
So great has been the success of “The Devil to Pay,” at the Plaza, that the season has been again extended, and will now finish on Christmas night. It began its third week on Saturday. The story “ The Devil to Pay ” moves logically and gaily along, without a break in the continuity, the characters are human and lovable, the acting has a polish in keeping with the sophistication of the plot and dialogue, and the settings provide an English background that at times makes it difficult to believe that the film was made in Hollywood. Colman has a role that suits him as well as any he has ever played during his long and successful career. He is Willie, the lovable black sheep of a noble English family, who has a flair for breaking all the conventions of his class, arousing the wrath of his aged parent, and winning the hearts of all women with whom he comes in contact. Packed off to Kenya Colony to make good, he soon bebomes impoverished, sells his father’s furniture to pay his passage home and turns up in Mayfair as gay and sprightly as ever, not one whit disturbed by the prospect of being disowned.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 3
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204POLISHED ACTING. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 3
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