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In circle: Lady Di ma Manners (right) “The Glorious Adventure Flora Robson, as Above, right : Bette Davis has also Queen Elizabeth played Queen Elizabeth I, in “ The I, reviews her Private ' Lives of Elizabeth and troops at Tilbury Essex,’’ with Errol Flynn opposite in "Fire Over her as the Earl of Essex. Also in the England." scene are Henry Daniel, Henry Stephenson and Robert Warwick. Right : When Matheson Lang played in “ Drake of England, ” Athene Seyler was Queen Elizabeth I. Justice, who has the role of Henry VIII in The Sword and the Rose. Other eminent actresses who have impersonated good Queen Bess in films are Lady Diana Manners in The Virgin Queen, which we saw in 1923 ; Floral Robson in Fire Over England in 1937 ; Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex in 1940 ; and Athene Seyler in Drake of England with the late Matheson Lang in the title role, which reached our screen in 1935. But the films already mentioned were not the first era of the British throne to be filmed. In I945> Sir Laurence Olivier gave us a stupendous film of William Shakespeare's Henry V with himself as Henry V, concerning the monarch’s claim to the Crown of France, the battle of Agincourt in which England defeats the French, and the happy alliance with France when Henry marries the French King’s daughter, played by Renee Asherson In this film every character was played by a name well known on the British stage or screen. In 1922 came the Stuart Blackton picture The Glorious Adventure, the first full-length photo-play taken in colour to be shown here. This was a romantic story of the Fire of Ixrndon in the reign of Charles II. This film brought Lady Diana Manners to the screen in the role of Lady Beatrice Fair, who took advantage of the law of that day that a woman was free of all debts on the occasion of her marriage. The Lady Beatrice married Bul- finch, (Victor McLaglen) on the eve of his execution. William Luff as the finely dres- sed Charles II in “ The Glorious Adventure." ^ to M mm Mil ^ -■ ^ tmML &