PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 8

PLAZA THEATRE.

"The Divorce of Lady X.' After a lengthy absence fronv'the screen Merle Oberon-. returns , more beautiful and talented than ever, m ■'The Divorce of Lady X, a highly satisfying repast of wit and *mtte fta. which is to be shown at the Plaza Theatre on Friday It is Miss Oberon s first appearance in technicolour. Partnered by handsome and; capable rence Olivier, the star gives a delightful and refreshing performance.- The story, based'on the famous play Counsel's Opinion," casts; Merle as Leslie, an attractive self-willed young debu.tante who is stranded at the Royal Parks Hotel owing to fog. No accommodation being available, Leslie sneaks into the room of a young barrister, Logan, and successfully argues him out of his room and bed, and in a pair of her reluctant host's pyjamas settles down comfortably for tne night, while he shakes down,-".Very; uncomfortably, ori the sofa in the next room. Without disclosing her identity Leslie leaves the hotel early next morning and returns home to receive, a warni reception from her peppery grandfather, Judge Steele, a great; comedy characterisation by Morton Selten,; who demands explanations for her appearance at 9 o'clock in the morning dressed in a man's pyjamas. That mormns Logan pleads a divorce—Johnson v. Johnson —before the Judge. Leslie hears the case and is piqued by the young barrister's heated denunciation of women. She plans to make him eat his words. Her opportunity soon arrives in the tferson of Lord Mere, who briefs Logan •to obtain a divorce from his wife because she Spent the night at the Royal Parks Hotel with another man., Logan uncomfortably assumes that this is,the sequel to the episode in which he took part and that -the stranger must have been Lady Mere. Meeting him again, Leslie realises that here is her opportunity to make sport of the young woman-hater. • with the aid of Mere and his wife she carries on the deception that she is Lady Mere. Logan is completely in. After a series of amusing events the hoax is exposed in a hilarious climax which, results in Logan rushing off in a hutt to "forget." But Leslie, not content with letting her man escape so easily, overtakes him on board a Channel i steamer, in a sorry state from seasickness and convinces him that the best| solution to any young barrister's problems is a wife.