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The Filmgoers' Annual
"The Devil to Pay " is generally recognised as the happiest picture in which Ronald Colman has yet appeared. The A story, which is a romantic comedy of life in London Society and of Derby Day in particular, was specially written for Colman by the famous English dramatist, Frederick Lonsdale, and it fits the star like a suit from Savile Row. The leading character is Willie Hale, the younger and wilder son of Lord Leeland. Tired of being exiled on an African farm, Willie auctions his belongings and returns to London with £20. Of this fortune, he spends £15 on buying George, the
THE DEVIL TO PAY
Sealyham you may see on your right (you can recognise him by his wearing a collar), while the remaining £5 is invested on taking a charming actress out to dinner. Next morning, Willie arrives home broke and unrepentant. But then he meets the girl, falls head over heels in love, takes her to the Derby and begins a series of escapades woven on the loom of laughter and ending in the land of Happy Ever After. In this brilliant picture, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by George Fitzmaurice, 0t Ronald Colman has, as his supporting players, Loretta Young, ^L who is the girl, Myrna Loy,
lb who is the actress, and the
wonderful Fred Kerr, who is Lord Leeland.
Loretta Young first played in pictures fifteen years ago. She was then aged four. She retired, at the age of seven, by her mother's orders. In 1927, at the age of fourteen, she returned to pictures in Colleen Moore's "Naughty, But Nice," and since then she has been heroine to such stars as Lon Chaney, John Barrymore and P.onald Colman. Polly Ann Young and Sally Blane are her sisters. She is married to Grant Withers, with whom she eloped by aeroplane on January 26, 1930.