“LADY FOR A DAY.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 3

“LADY FOR A DAY.”

Outstanding Comedy-drama Coming to Regent. “ Friday the 13th,” a first-class British drama, in which the leading roles are portrayed by Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn, heads the attractive programme at the Regent Theatre this week. Besides being a comedy-drama of outstanding merit and intense human appeal, “ Lady For a Day,” which will come to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, is said to be one of the most artistically-acted productions of the year. Nothing finer could be desired than the characterisations of May Robson, the Australian star, first as a gin-besotted apple-seller and then as a leading New York society woman living in a luxurious mansion for the purpose of deceiving her daughter and her lover, a scion of the Spanish ncbility. She is capably supported by an outstanding cast of popular players. It is the story of an old apple woman in New York who is one of the most popular outcasts in the vast city. She has a daughter whom she sent as a child to a convent in Spain, and in her regular correspondence to the girl writes on the notepaper of a fashionable hotel, telling of her wealth and high position in society. The daughter is engaged to an aristocratic Spaniard, whose father insists on making a trip to New York to see the girl’s family. Through the good nature of a notorious criminal to whom the old “ apple woman ” has always brought luck, he transforms her into a distinguished lady, complete with a suite of rooms at the hotel, the notepaper of which she has so long used. She is a “ Lady For a Day.” Box plans at the D.I.C.