REGENT THEATRE.

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

REGENT THEATRE.

"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper form a brilliant new comedy team, while the direction of Ernst Lubitsch brings out the punch of the French background in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," the picture of life among Europe's smart set, which commences tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. The story, adapted from the famous play of Alfred Savior, tells about a muchmarried American multi-millionaire who is subdued and put into a straitjacket by his eighth wife, whom he 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 tha.t fits him down to the last stripe on his last pyjama. After becoming the bride of the much-mar-ried financier, Miss Colbert, a penniless French aristocrat, starts out on a campaign to bring him to his knees and humble his pride for- the first time. A score of Europe's gay spots, including the Riviera, the Tyrol, Venice, Vienna, and Paris, form the battleground, while 1 the bride's weapons are coolness, indifference, and stubbornness. No general in history used his tactics to greater advantage, and before the honeymoon is over, Cooper is her obedient servant. There is here a lightness of touch and spontaneity of humour which puts the picture out in front of other screen comedies.