It Pays to Advertise (play)
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It Pays to Advertise is a farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett. Described as "A Farcical Fact in Three Acts", the play depicts the idle son of a rich manufacturer setting up a spurious busine
Ralph Lynn (centre) with Cecilia Gold and Will Deming in the 1924 London production
Mary, the Comtesse, Ambrose and Rodney
Lobby card for It Pays to Advertise (1931)
Ralph Lynn
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Ralph Clifford Lynn was an English actor who had a 60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the Aldwych farces first on stage and then in film.
It Pays to Advertise (play)
…original farces written by Ben Travers. By contrast with later plays in the series, in which Walls played worldly and sometimes shady characters, with Ralph Lynn as his naïve associate, in It Pays to Advertise Walls's character is upright and conventional, and Lynn is the manipulative schemer. From the revised…
Lynn in the early 1930s