"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING”

BRITISH AT THE DUCHESS, “HAPPY DAYS” IS COMING. Tom Walls started his stage career as • member of a stock company in the English provinces and received his first big opportunity to make a name for himself when he filled a leading role in the Arcadians Company. He toured Australia and New Zealand with the Arcadians, and returned to London to star in comedies, which eventually led If l to acquire Ben Travers’ literary works for production purposes, Walls fonneo the Aldwych Theatre Company, which includes Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough. Winifred Shotter, Sydney Lynn, Robertson Hare, etc., with himself as a member and director of presentations. The Aldwych company nas since become famous all over the world, and such comedies as “Rookery Nook,” “Cuckoo in the Nest,” “Thark,” “Plunder,” ‘‘A Night Like This,” “Tons of Money,” and many others have been presented with outstanding success. Tom’s first picture role was in “Rookery Nook,” and he scored, together with Ralph Lynn, such an outstanding success in this that arrangements were made with British Dominion Films Ltd., for the production of a series of Ben Travers and Frederick Lonsdale plays. Mr Walls is now’ appearing in “Canaries Sometimes Sing” at the Duchess Theatre. ‘'Happy Days’ ’ Coining. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell,

known the world over as the screen’s favourite sweethearts, will be seen and heard in “Happy Days,” Fox Movietone all-talking, all star musical romance that begins an engagement at the Duchess Theatre next Wednesday. So will every other player at Fox Movietone City including Will Rogers, Walter Catlett, William Collier, Sr., El Brendel, Marjorie White. Victor MeLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Sharon Lynn, Frank Richardson, George Macfarlane,> Tom Patricola, Ann Pennington, James J. Corbett, Lew Brice, Warner Baxter, David Rollins, Whispering Jack Smith and George Olsen and his music. Benjamin Stoloff directed the production, while Sidney Lanfield and Edwin Burke supplied the story and dialogue. “The Squeaker” on Friday. Edgar Wallace is notable for his versatility, for the speed with which he produces his works, and for his popularity in the world of entertaining literature. Now he has entered upon a new phase of activity—that of film producing. “The Squeaker,” one of his most notable stage plays, in his first venture in this line. He has adapted it, written the dialogue, chosen the cast, and produces it himself. The result is excellent, and it is our pleasant duty to record the fact that it is an All-British talkie. Even if it were not remarkable for its many thrills and characteristic dry humour, it would be an outstanding example of the English language as H should be spoken—and it is a triumph for Percy Marmont, Gordon Harker, Trilby Clark, Anne Grey, Alfred Drayton and Erie Maturiu, whose acting is of the best. Picturegoers will have the opportunity of seeing “The Squeaker” at the Duchess Theatre next Friday when it opens for a two days’ run.