'MAYFAIR NIGHTS'

Evening Star, Issue 21354, 7 March 1933, Page 1

'MAYFAIR NIGHTS'

ST. JAMES’S HEXT FILM ‘ Mayfair Nights,’ a Warner Bros, picture produced at Tcddington Studios in England, which will open at the St. James Theatre on Friday, is said to tell the truth about a most notorious night club queen. The picture is based upon the activities of a mother who, deciding that the welfare of her two children is more important than the law, indulges in a long period of law-breaking by conducting a London night club at which drinks are served after the forbidden hours, and at which the gambling tables hold full sway. It is a club in which the elite of the West End and the British nobility disport themselves until the wee hours of the .morning. Eventually the night club, owner is caught, and is sent to prison for three months. However, an English peer falls in love with one of her daughters, and marries her. Although England has no Prohibition in the American sense of the word, nevertheless the sale of intoxicating liquors is very closely supervised. ■- It may' bo sold only within certain hours. Night clubs are compelled by law to stop selling liquors at 11 p.m. Some of these night clubs arc very exclusive, and are limited only to members who have been properly vouched for. Isobel Elson, one of the foremost actresses on the London stage, who has appeared opposite George Arliss on the London stage in ‘ The Green Goddess ’ and in New York in ‘ Julia Price,’ ‘ The Silver Box,’ ‘ The Mulberry Bush,’ and ‘ The Outsider,’ plays the' feminine lead as the mother night club owner. Others in the cast, all recruited from the London stage, arc Ivor Barnard, Margot Grahame, D. A. Clarkc-Smith, Moira Lynd, and Margaret Danier.