AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19368, 27 July 1925, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

THE GRAND M IF WINTER COMES” HUTCHINSON’S FAMOUS NOVEL OPENS TO-DAY “Do not deviate one iota from the story.” Thi g was t } le or( ] er i ssuc j William Fox to his production staff following his purchase of the screen rights to “If Winter Comes,” A. S. M., Hutchinson’s great novel, for which he paid the highest price on record. So, in accordance with this ruling, the chief scenario writer of the Fox Eastern Studios went to work to adapt the theme without tho introduction of a solitary character or action not mentioned by the author. But, how faithfully and artistically every detail contained in the book was reproduced upon the screen will be revealed when the screen version opens a return engagement at the Grand Theatre to-day for three afternoons and evenings. Harry Millarde, director of “Over the Hili’’ and “The Town that Forgot God.” who also directed “If Winter Comes,” followed the script to the letter, with the result that the finished production appears to be the book itself come to life. So intense was the zeal of Air. Fox in his supervision, that lie sent

Director Millarde and his company to I-ngktud that the scenes might be “shot” on the very localities in which the author places them. Devonshire in Kent County and the old cathedral town of Canterbury arc the actual scenes of the photoplay. A notable east of screen artists portray the various familiar parts in the picture including Percy Marmont as Mark Sabre; Ann Forrest as Lady Tybar; Arthur Metcalf as Hapgood; Sydney Herbert as Twyning; Walter Kolb as Harold Twyniug; William Riley Hatch as tlnRev. Sebastian Fortune; Raymond Bloomer as Lord Tybar; Virginia L<-e as Miss Winfred; Leslie King a.-, “Humpo,” George Pelzer as Old Bright; James Ton Brook as the

coroner; Margaret Fielding as Mabel; Gladys Leslie as Eftie; Dorothy Allen as High Jinks; Eleanor Daniels as Mrs. Perch and Russell Sedgwick as Young Perch. Intending patrons are requested to be seated by 2 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. as the picture takes up the full two hours and a half to screen. The plans are. now open at the Grand Theatre office.