“THE DOVER ROAD”
“Where Sinners Meet,” co stars Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook in their first appearance together since the epic, “Cavalcade.” It a screen adaptation of A. A. Milne’s highly popular comedy “The Dover Road,” which for many years convulsed audiences in England, America, Canada and Australia. It was from this play thaf Britisher's coined one of their favourite expressions, “They took the Dover Road.” a phrase applied to men who elope with other men’s wives, and w<> men who flee with other women’s bus bands. The Dover Hoad is the main highway from London to the port of Dover and so is the most important route to Paris, where speedy divorces are possible and where “the benefit of clergy” is not considered too import-
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 14
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