AMUSEMENTS.
i. ♦ ' PLAZA THEATRE. "CANARIES SOMETIMES SING." '.Che British coiaedy, "Canaries Sometimes Sing," commences a, eecond week at the Plaza Theatre to morrow. Tlie characters are Geoffrey Lynea (Tom Walls), Anne Lynea, liin wife (Oathleen Nosbitt), Ernest Melton (Atliole Stewart), and Elma Helton (Yvonne Arnaud). Tom Walls is Been as a successful playwright living in the country. Athole Stewart has the part of an English gentleman, of tho rather stupid type, but scrupulously honest. Lynes is brilliant in public, but does not. like tlie country. Mrs Melton had bean an actress, and it was mainly through her husband's honesty that sho became his wife. So when the four spend a week-end together Mr Lynes is irresistibly attracted to Mrs Melton and Mr Mellon is dpceived by Mrs Lynes's false charm Ernest is horrified to discover that he has fallen in love with the wife of his oldest friend, with whom he went through Eton and Oxford, while Geoffrey ia delighted to think that ho at last i 3 going to he rid of his wife.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20315, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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175AMUSEMENTS. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20315, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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