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26 BROADWAY AND
DIANA’S DRAMAS
In Russia with Rasputin and “ Cavalcade 99 with Clive
IF EVER a picture deserved the honor, which this magazine exclusively bestows, of ‘‘The Picture of the Month” it is “Cavalcade.” Your editor considers this one of the finest pictures ever made in the English language, if not one of the best pictures of all times. And Fox Films, which, unfortunately, produced a number of mediocre and “just fair” pictures in the past, have covered themselves with glory in the making of this, their most recent success.
To Diana Wynyard, well known English actress, must go a large share of the glory and honor with which this film is being laden. To her, too, must go honors for that highly interesting and exciting picture which, last month, made such a distinct hit throughout the nation and which is even now being shown at many of the country’s leading theatres, — “Rasputin.”
So the two dramas in which Miss Diana appears, we tender the honors of “The (Two) Pictures of the Month.” The original play, by Noel Coward,
“Cavalcade,” ran eleven solid months at the Drury Lane theatre in London and took six months to prepare for the screen. More than 25,000 extras were employed during the course of the production and the script called for 40 principal speaking parts. The picture was directed by frank Lloyd and includes in the cast Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Merle Tottenham, Irene Browne, Beryl Mercer, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay, John Warburton, David Torrence, Claude King, Winter Hall,
Lawrence Grant, Bonita Granville, Sheila MacGill, Douglas Scott, Lionel Belmore,
Dick Henderson, Jr.,
Mary Forbes, Montague Shaw, Stuart Hill, Will Stanton,
Adele Crane, Ann Shaw, Desmond Roberts, Billy Bevan,
Temple Piggott and Frank Atkinson.
“Cavalcade” opens with introduction of the Marryots; the mother, Jane (Diana Wynyard), the father,
Robert (Clive Brook) and their sons, Edward ( Dick Henderson, Jr.) 12, and Joe ( Douglas Scott) 8. We also meet their servants, the maid, Ellen (Una O’Connor), her husband, the butler, Bridges ( Herbert Mundin). It is New Year’s Eve,
1899.
The Marryots are drinking their traditional toast. ( Continued on page 62)
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