ST. JAMES' THEATRE.

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

ST. JAMES' THEATRE.

"SO LONG LETTY.» Jiuoituao of its humorous situations, its genuine comedy, iU cutohy music and songs, its quick action, and the excellent acting of its cast, "So Lontr Letty' 1 at St. Jamos' Theatre this woek offers entertainment of a j'srlicularly wholesome and refreshing type. J'iie short items, also, are ko-hX, making the whole programme one which nobody could fail to enjoy. The ingredients of the play are a rich and irascible uncle and his impoverished nephew, two men who are not satisfied with thoir wives and so arrange a mutual change, many mistakes and misunderstandings, a piirty, arid the poliqe. The netting is an hotel at a, fashionable seaside resort in America. Warner Brothers made tho picture, adapting it from the stage play of the name name, and in the transformation it has Rained rather than lost in ita capacity to entertain.

Uncle Claudo (Claud* Gillinswater) and Inn two flapper granddaughters, played by Helen Foster mid Marion Bryon, arrive at tl'ii beach hotel for what Uncle Claudo fondly imagines will bo a quiet and rcstfil holiday. Immediately Letty, playod by Charlotte Greenwood, who has many times taken the same part in the stage play, breaks into their room in her position as canvasser ior a beauty parlour She annoya Uncle Claude intensely, hut fortunately he deo'i not know that, she is the wife .of.his nephew, who hopes eome day to inherit some of his uncle's money. When Uncle Claude Roea to visit his nephew ha frets into the wrong house and finds the nephow there with another man's wife, by whom ho is at once attracted. They do not enlighten him and he (joes away well satisfied with the oharminjt and sensible wife that his nephow lias chosen. From then until tho end of tho pi&y humorous situatio'ia and ridiculous actions follow rapidly, culminating in a party which the police raid and a general reconciliation.