KING'S THEATRE.
"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," which is lit present showing at the King's Theatre, features Gloria Swanson, as Mona de Brias, who meets her "Bluebeard" ' lover while ehe is ignorant of his notorious past. Mona's father is an aristocratic though impoverished old gentleman, who, together with his daughter and son-in-law, is spending the season at a fashionable French seaside resort. The aristocrat's coffers are very low, and in order to replenish the family fortune he agrees, when John Brandon, an American millionaire, proposes marriage with Mona. Alice George, Brandon's private secretary, knowing how generously the modern "Bluebeard" has treated his seven wives, desires to become his eighth, and when she hears of Brandon's whirlwind courts ship she secretly summons the seven wives to the marriage. The programme includes an International News, and a Buddy Messenger comedy. The King's Orchestra, under Mr. L. D. Austin, supplies choice musical selections.
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Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 3
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