STRANGE FARCE

Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 7

STRANGE FARCE

1 MATRIMONIAL PROBLEM • FOR STRAHD

‘ Xho Matrimonial Problem ’ is one of. the next attractions for the Strand Theatre. This adaptation of the hilari. ous French farce enjoyed a phenomenal run in Paris, and is being received with loud acclaim in this country. It is an unusual and racy version of tho many stories of husbands who left home for ono reason or another, returning to find their wives remarried. M. ; Adolphe Nohlet, in tho case in hand,; is supposed'to have been killed in a railroad accident five years before the story, opens. His wife is happily married, and the mother of a child by the second husband. M. Nohlet reappears as a, hairdresser, pursued by many ladies. Ho one day is summoned to his former home, which he has completely forgotten. His wife notices his resemblance tp her first partner, and husband No. 2 resents the interest which he does not understand. A hypnotist secretly restore- Noblet’s memory to the point where the accident occurred. He now, believes himself wed to his first wife, and fails to recall his own later wife and two sets of twins. The final and quite unexpected adjustment comes after a series of excruciatingly funny haps and Mishaps. The cast is composed of Lilyan Tashmjm, Florence Eldridge, James Gleason, Beryl Mercer, Frank Fay, Marion Byron, Vivian: Oakland, Arthur Edmund Carewe, anj James Bradbury.