DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 6

DE LUXE THEATRE.

I With situations and dialogue modelled on |ypical P. G. Wodehouso lines, "Almost a Honeymoon,!' at the Do Luxe Theatre, is a British of exceptional merit, and has a cast which is able to ensure that the story loses nothing in the tolling. The plot 13 not uriginul, but it is one that will probably couilnuo to form the basis of many more plays tvuleu aim at amusing. An impecunious bachelor J—"a gentleman in his own 'right"—dually resolves tp escaps his. creditors by marrying and taking a Government position, in Pcnang. His attempts' to find a suitable wife are, not successful, and after drowning the memory of liis latest disappointment in champagne and Itvhiaky lie returns late to his flat, forgetting that it has passed into new hands, the prospective wife of the new tenant being in occupation—actually in the bath—when he arrives. 'After sleeping in mutual ignorance of each other's prosencc in twin beds, the pair .awaka in the morning to reallso tho situation.- that has arisen and also to moat tho girl's1 flauceo. Untangling ' "■ tho involved "circumstances is no easy matter, hut with tho aid .of a.vnlct who is af Jeast ji Jeeves, UE .not : an'Crle.liton, together with ii timely legacy from ■a former- rich undo. iiv-Kow Zealand, a solu.tlon satisfactory to tlie principal parties is made possible. .-. The dialogue Is very clever and tho sallies exchanged beep the audience In-"rare humour. The leading players aro CUll'ord .MoUisou, Dodo , Watts,. Donald, Calthrop, and Lamond Dickson. Tho supports comprise an Australian newsreel, a review of world events by Graham MacKamec,, .and an "Aesop ■ Fable" sound -cartoon.' ~ I \