“THE DEVIL’S HOLIDAY”
DUCHESS SHOWS DRAMA. ! NEXT WEEK’S CHANGE. There is something apropos in the fact that Nancy Carroll, who is one of - Paramount’s “biggest names,” is now playing in a production which to- ( quired the biggest set ever constructed for the making of a talkin gpicture. - ( The picture is 44 The Devil’s Holiday,” a romance-drama of the "wheat-belt, , written and directed by Edmund •oulding, and is now at the Duchess Theatre. , Miss Carroll plays the role of a pro- ' fessional 4 4 good girl” who, as a mani- . curits in a big hotel, works hand-in ( hand, with double crossing salesmen of farm implements to 44 take down” their . farmer customers. “Anna Christie.” There need be no further speculation : as to Greta Garbo’s popularity in the - talkies. Next Wednesday and Thursday the Duchess Theatre will screen ; 41 Anna Christie,” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-talking picture, when Greta Garbo herself will settle the question for movie-lovers. Greta Garbo is supported by a carefully chosen cast consisting of Charles Bickford, George Marion and Marie Dressier, and Clarence Brown directed the picture from the famous play of | the same name by Eugene O’Neill. Regis Toomey is a graduate of the University of Pittzburgh.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)
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