EMPRESS THEATRE
“ONCE A LADY.” The story of a Russian adventuress transplanted from Paris, scene of many amorous conquests, by the different wooing of an English son of wealth, is told in “Once a Lady,” screening at the Empress Theatre to-night and Wednesday. The changed environment, with the husband’s disapproving family alienating the affection of a daughter from her mother, and a moment of indiscretion with a former admirer on the eve of an important election in which the young man is interested, provoked a breakup. Reported killed in a train wreck, the outcast wife remains “dead,” becoming a famous butterfly in Paris, but jealously watching the career of her daughter from a distance. The manner in which the husband’s faulty divorce decree, fear of scandal, and the woman’s anonymous devotion to her grown daughter’s love urge, are dramatically woven into a happy event for the second generation, and makes an impressive climax. Ruth Chatterton and Ivor Novello share the leading roles.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3448, 22 November 1932, Page 5
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162EMPRESS THEATRE King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3448, 22 November 1932, Page 5
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