EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

"A MOST UNWORTHY LADY." A favourite theme of contemporary «l«y----wrlghts—the gentle mockery of modern manners and morals—is the basic idea of "A Most Unworthy Lady," the featured attraction which is to bo presented at Everybody's Theatre this week. No playwr ght can go wrong with such a plot. A Most Unworthy Lady" is, throughout, what U known as "good theatre." No one scenei is better or bigger than a preceding or following one | there is a tremendous dramatic puncn in every act, In every line, in every situa tion; it moves easily, through frankly sonsational stages, to a smashing climax. Leatrice Joy, that brilliant, erratic, but wholly charming young actress, plays the role of Mrs Laura Sargent, who materially assisted ber 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 "tho badger game." Ihe lady fascinates Mb 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 ha Imagines her nothing but a heartless baggage, goes and marries tho first stupid little debutante he bom