PIQUANT AND POWERFUL

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 11

PIQUANT AND POWERFUL

• LADY FDR A DAY ' FOR OCTAGON * Lady for a Day,’ a film with a story of unusual piquancy and gripping power, and a cast of stars who give of their best, will head to-morrow’s new bill at the Octagon Theatre. The picture attempts nothing but pure entertainment, and from that point of view it is easily the best released in New Zealand for many months. May Robson, the veteran Australian actress, is gloriously. at her best in this excellent production. It is safe to say that she has never appealed so greatlv to an audience as she does as Apple" Annie in ‘ Lady for a Day, her part in its story fitting in splendidly with her inimitable brand of humour, and her never-heavy drama. The plot is most originally treated. Apple Annie (sometimes called Madam© La Gimp) lives among the gamblers and racketeers of old Broadway, albeit she is not -strictly of them. She lives with a deep secret; she has a lovely young daughter in Spain being educated at a convent. When the mother writes letters to her she pretends in them that she is a widow no longer, but has married money and is in high society. Later the girl, about to marry a Spanish grandee, accompanies him in a liner to New York, there to meet her mother. Annie becomes desperate on learning this, and her friends of the underworld come to her rescue. But the story does not end without a great deal of fuss and bother, and a great deal of excitement for the audience.