RADIO PROGRAMMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 15

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Today's radio programme will be fotmd on page 28. PLAZA THEATRE. ♦ "The Divorce of Lady X." After a lengthy absence from the screen Merle Oberon returns more beautiful and talented than ever in "The Divorce of Lady X,' a highly satisfying repast of wit and gentle fun. which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. It' is Miss Oberon's first appearance In technicolour. Partnered by handsome and capable Laurence Olivier, the star gives a delightful and refreshing performance. The story, based on the famous play "Counsels Opinion," casts Merle as Leslie, an attractive self-willed young debutante 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 the night, while he shakes down, very uncomfortably, on the sofa in the next room. Without disclosing her identity Leslie leaves the hotel early next morning and returns home to receive a warm reception from her peppery grandfather, Judge Steele, a great comedy charac terisation by Morton Selten, who demands explanations for her appearance at 9 o'clock in the morning dressed- in a man's pyjamas. That morning Logan pleads a divorce —Johnson v. Johnson I—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 person 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 beautiful 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 taken in. After a series of amusing events the hoax isj exposed in a hilarious climax which results in Logan rushing off in a huff to "forget." But Leslie, not content with letting her man escape so easily, overtakes him on board a Channel steamer, in a sorry state from seasickness, and convinces him that the best solution to any young barrister's problems is a wife.