AMUSING DRAMA TO BE SCREENED AT QUEEN’S THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 7

AMUSING DRAMA TO BE SCREENED AT QUEEN’S THEATRE.

A. A. Milne’s delightful comedy, “The Little Adventuress,” will be shown at the Queen’s Theatre this week.

What happens when a charming girl elopes with the wrong man only to discover the right one during the elopement? After five years of married life, Leonard Stoddard leaves his Victoria in tears and flies to the studio of Helen Davis, a little painter. Believing she loves him, Helen agrees to elope with Leonard. Victoria, meanwhile, has taken her troubles to Antonio Russo, an actor. They, too, decide to run away together. Helen and Leonard lose their way, their car sticks in the mud, and they inquire at a ranch house belonging to George La Fuente, a wealthy bachelor, who suggests that they put up at his place for the night. He instructs Dominick, his butler, to show them to the Blue‘Suite. He gathers from Helen’s frightened manner that she is not Leonard's wife. No sooner has the first runaway couple gone upstairs than Victoria and Antonio arrive, also lost and in quest of an hotel. They pass themselves off as “Mr and Mrs Russo,” and Dominick shows them to the White Suite. At dinner, Victoria and Leonard, greatly embarrassed to discover each other, pretend to be strangers in order not to expose themselves to their respective partners. After a tiresome evening of bridge, Leonard is forced to watch his wife retire to the white suite with Tony, while Victoria sees him go to the blue suite with Helen. La Fuente, sensing that'all is not well, follows them upstairs. The film comes to a very amusing climax. Vera Reynolds, Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi and Robert Ober have the leading roles. “Silent Sanderson,” a Western drama starring Harry Carey, is an admirable supporting attraction. There are also many supporting subjects.