REGENT THEATRE.

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

REGENT THEATRE.

» "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife."

Claudette Colbert and Gary Coopef form a brilliant new comedy team, while the direction of Ernst Lubitsctt brings out the punch of the French background in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" the picture of We among Europe's smart set, which commences on Friday at the Regent Theatre. Tha story, adapted from the famous play of Alfred Savior, tells, about a muchmarried American multi-millionaira who is subdued and put into a straitjacket by his. eighth wife, whom ha marries for a new thrill. Miss Colbert is the same flip, ingenious girl who made screen history in last year s "I Met Him in Paris." Cooper, as the philandering American,, plays opposite her in a role that fits him down tojme last stripe on his last pyjama. , After becoming the bride of the much-mar-ried financier, Miss Qolbert, a penniless French aristocrat, starts out on a campaign to bring him to hisJmees. and humble his pride for the first time. A score of Europe's gay spots, including the Riviera, the Tyrol, Vemce, Vienna, and Paris, form the battleground, while the brides weapon* ara coolness, indifference, and stubbornness. No general in history used his tactics to greater advantage, and beiore the honeymoon is over, Cooper,is hef obedient servant. There is here, a lightness of touch and spontaneity pi humour which, puts the picture'out m front of other screen comedies. :