QUEEN’S THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 4

QUEEN’S THEATRE

“WAGES FOR WIVES.” At the Queen’s Theatre this week is “Wages for Wives,” taken from the stage play, “Chicken Feed.” It is a story whose characters might be anyone’s nejt-door neighbours, they are so typical and so true to life. The action is laid in a small community where the men are the lords and masters of their households. The plot revolves about the ever-present problem of the average American home—that of the distribution of finances.

Jacqueline Logan and Creighton Hale are cast in the leading roles Miss Logan is the lovely and spirited Nell Bailey, who starts the revolts of the wives on the very night of her wedding. Mr Hale is her fiance, who is brought into the argument against his will—and who seems to he holding the losing hand throughout the entire picture.

Claude Gillingwater is Jacqueline’s father, Jim Bailey, who is the cause of all the unpleasantness. Margaret Seddon is his meek little wife, who unwillingly follows her more decisive daughter into hiding. Others in the cast are Earle Foxe, Zasu Pitts, Dan Mason, Margaret Livingston, and David Butler. There is a good supporting bill, and excellent music by Miss Eileen Dennei hy’s orchestra.