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"THE PERFECT SPECIMEN" AT CIVIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT k Drrvl Flynn, that handsome young I Irish actor who leaped to fame overft night in “Captain Blood” a couple of ■ years ago and then carried on with Charge of the Light Brigade,” Light” and “The Prince and the Pauper,” comes to the Civic Theatre to-night and to-morrow afternoon and evening in a modern comedy-drama called “The Perfect Specimen.” The story deals with an eccentric old lady possessed of many millions who has an ambition to see her grandson raised as an altogether perfect young man, and who for that reason supplies him with an abundance of tutors but keeps him confined to the limits of the family’s vast estate. A young village girl, Joan Biondell, manages to break into the virtual prison and meet the young man. She succeeds in getting him outside of his bounds, and he begins to underand love the world without.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 10
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154MARTON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 10
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