“EAST LYNNE.”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 19 (Supplement)

“EAST LYNNE.”

When you see the William Fox screen version of “East Lynne,” to-night at the New Grand theatre, there will flit through your mind many happy moments and fond memories which everyone associates with this veteran of melodrama. And somehow, the picture does not give the impression of being “old timey,” but rather a well directed drama of an olden period that holds your interest every moment it is being enacted on the screen.

Beautifully staged, “East Lynne” might .pass as a fashion show of grandma’s time with all thc frills ..nd bustles that tend to make us smile to-day, yet gorgeously appointed. Mr Fox has chosen wisely in his cast, too. Alma Rubens makes a beautiful and pathetic Lady Isabel and Edmund Lowe is the handsome dandy of a half a century ago as Archibald Carlyle. Lou Tellegen as the villainous Sir Francis Levison and Marjorie Daw and Barbara Hare are ideal. In fact, every member of the cast fits into the character as a well chosen glove. Other players arc Paul Panzer. Belle Bennett, Lydia Knott, Leslie Fenton, Harrv Seymour, Martna Mattox, Richard Headrick and Virginia Marshall. Emmett Flynn directed the picture, which was adapted from Mrs Henry Wood’s play by Lcnore Coffee.