In addition to Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who plays the part of the pitiless Earl of Warwick, a veritable galaxy of London stage favourites appear in "Nine Days a Queen" which opens its run at the Cathay Theatre to-day. Thus does the British film industry benefit from the circumstance that England's lack of wide open spaces enables it to draw more easily on theatrical talent without compelling the recruits endure much interruption of their normal, flesh-and-blood appearances, Miss Nova Pilbeam is of course chiefly a film actress and in this film has the part of her life, but Dame Sybil Thorndike as the Nurse, Miss Martita Hunt as Jane's mother, Miss Gwen Francon Davies as Mary, make a trio of real distinction long earned on the stage. Among the men, Mr. Miles Malleson, Mr. Frank Collier, Mr. John Mills (Shanghai remembers him as a splendid Raleigh in "Journey's End"), Mr. John Laurie (an ex-service contribution to the Shakespearean stage by the H.A.C.) and the veteran Mr. Felix Aylmer prove how strong is the cast which has gone to make the film a notable production,
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