ENTERTAINING FARE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 3

ENTERTAINING FARE.

The entertaining double-feature programme showing at Everybody's Theatre this week consists of “Sweethearts and Wives,” starring Billie Dove and Clive Brook, and “Courage.” with Belle Bennett and Rex Bell in the principal roles. The story of the firstnamed has the outward trappings of a blood-curdling murder mystery mixed up with the theft of a valuable diamond bracelet, but the dark deeds turn out to be all sham and the story ends with a very unexpected marriage after the bride-to-be has outwitted a clever detective. Clive Brook plays the detective and Billie Dove the charming young lady who finishes up with a wedding; but it is not the detective that she marries. To begin with, Angela Worthington, a married woman, who is motoring in . France with a man who is not her husband, goes with him to a lonely inn looking for petrol. When they cross the doorway they walk right into the centre of a criminal plot to secure a valuable diamond bracelet lost by ah Englishwoman in Baris. They find there a French maid who turns out to be an Englishwoman, and they are forced to fall in with her plans if Angela’s reputation is to be saved. After what sounds like a murder has been committed in the adjoining room, a famous detective (Clive Brook) puts in an appearance, and all manner of amusing complications follow. The bogus French maid is the sister of the owner of the diamonds, and is trying to get them back to save her sister’s honour, and the way she succeeds in doing so. at the same time finding a husband for herself is cleverly worked out. "Courage” is a dramatic and emotional story of a widow with several sons and daughters, who are in turn won away from her by a sour-tempered sister-in-law as a, subtle revenge, the outcome of a long-standing hatred. The sister-in-law is successful with all the children excepting Ihe youngest son, who not only holds the family together, but so pleases an eccentric old ladv that she dies conveniently and leaves him half a million dollars.