EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 8

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

«A MOST UNWORTHY LADY." A favourite theme of contemporary play wrights—the gentle mockery of modern manners and morals—is the basic idea of A Host Unworthy Lady." the featured attraction which is to be presented at Everybody's Theatre next week. No playwright can go wrong with such a plot. A Most Unworthy Lady" is. throughout, what s known as "good theatre." No one scene is better or bigger than a preceding or following one; there is a tremendous dramatic pnnch in every act, in every line, in every situa tion; it moves easily, through franHy sensational stages, to a smashing climax. Lea trice Joy. that brilliant, erratic, but wholly charming young actress, plays the role of Mrs Laura Sargent, who materially assisted her. husband on the stock market by indulging in synthetic sin, but a product that looked perilously like the genuine article. Her husband financially ruined, induces her to play what is known as "the badger game.' The lady fascinates his business associates; she is found in "a compromising situation"; the other gentleman very willingly pays up; and the Sargents thus increase their slender purse. All goes well enough until Mrs Laura falls in love with one of her victims, who, when he imagines her nothing but a heartless baggage, goes and marries the first stupid little debutante he sees. Then "A Most Unworthy Lady" become# genuinely dramatic. The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company.