KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 16

KING’S THEATRE

Merle Oberon phiy.i Jane Benson, a girl who has lived all her life in a great barn of a house attended by—or attending t0 _eliierlv (hyrepit servants, in “Over the Moon.” which has been retained by the management of the King'c Theatre. Bv the terms of her grandfather's will Jane cannot sell the ancestral mansion, and she is ihoroughly tired of her drab and dull existence when the news comes that her '■-rnndfatlier had a reason for his eccentric will. Ever since his death his solicitors had been investing his money so that when his granddaughter became 21 she would find that -she was the heiress to no less than eighteen million pounds. Prior to this discovery, she and the doctor. Freddie Jarvis (Rex Harrison), hud decided to risk matrimony on his none-too-liberal stipend, but when the news of her fortune becomes known Jarvis renounces' the engagement, refusing tu become the "tame poodle” of a millionairess, and leaves her to continue his research. Almost immediately on the announcement of the fortune various schemers for wealth and easy living assail the slightly bewildered Miss Benson, and she finds herself whisked off to Europe by the ever-romantic Blue Train anil immersed in a perfect deluge of new dresses, gambling, dancing and general excitements. Two notorious fortune-hunters — one a French marquis and the other an English lord—trail her as far as Switzerland, but for all her wealth and the complete reversal of her fortunes, Jane still retains a fairly cool head and is not swept off her feet by their protestations of devotion. Only one man seems to like her for what she is—this is a young man whom she thinks is a criminal from justice and to whom she offers a thousand pounds. It Iranspircfs however that instead of being penniless he is the richest young man in Endland. and he proposes that they got married as neither could be accused of marrying the other for wealth. Jane wavers at this proposal, for her heart is still in the stubborn doctor’s possession, ami she makes one last attempt at persuading him to marrj’ her. They decide to go away on a holiday at his expense, travelling on the cheapest trains, staying nt the most inconspicuous hotels, and so on, so that, she can prove to him that xiie is still capable of becoming a comparatively poor man's wife. Her job is harder than she imagines, and they get to A'euiee before he finally gives in.