“CHARLEY’S AUNT.”
The practice of borrowing a star or player by one producing organisation from another, is only done when a role of special importance is nndcr consul-' oration. Such was the case in “Charley’s Aunt,” to be shown at the Regent Theatre in due course, the comedy farce on English undergrauate life for
which Charles Ruggics was especially borrowed from Paramount by 'Columbia, to ensure that the title role- of tins outstanding comedy he adequatelyfilled. With the exception of.. Ruggles as “the Aunt from Brazil—where the nuts come from” and June Collyer, th© east of this comedy is entirely English. Prominent among them is Flora le Brc-j ton, who is often described as the English Mary Bickford.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 April 1931, Page 3
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