EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.
MONDAY NEXT
CHARLES DICKENS SCORES THE
IDLE ARISTOCRACY
In diaries Dickens' immortal story of "A Tala of Two Cities,' which has been filmed by -William Fox, and m which Wm, Farnum portrays the two characters of Sidney Carton and Chas. Darnay, the great English novelist gives ft scathing arraignment of the tollies in vogue among the aristocracy during the period preceding the French Revolution. "Exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding . . -would have found it Lad to discover . . one solitary wife who, in her manners and appearance, owned to being a mother. Tndeed, except for the mere act of bringing a troublesome creature into the world—which does not go far towards the realisation of the name of Mother —thero was no such thing known to the fashion- Peasant women kept the. unfashionable babies close, and brought them up. and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty." Is this arraignment applicable to the world of to-day ? This picture is presenct/d in eight reels. Reserves ni«.y be secured at Upton's.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 6
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172EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 6
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