A BRILLIANT PLAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 3

A BRILLIANT PLAY.

“Where Sinners Meet” for Regent.

Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald are co-starred in “ The Cat and the Fiddle,” the charming operetta which heads the current programme at the Regent Theatre. Blessed with scintillating dialogue and a perfect cast, RKO-Radio’s “ Where Sinners Meet ” will begin its engagement at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook are co-starred, the film marking their first appearance together since the memorable “ Cavalcade.” Billie Burke has a strongly featured role. Adapted from A. A. Milne’s highly successful “ The Dover Road,” the picture happily retains all of that play’s brilliancy, and has an added charm which only the scope of the camera can accord. It tells the storv of Latimer (Clive Brook), a wealthy Englishman who devotes his time, his fortune and his peculiar talents to preventing elopements of mismated couples, and more especially to those affairs in which men attempt to run away with other men’s wives. This, in itself, is a truly novel basis for a film corned} 7 , and the way in which it has been handled is most refreshing. The fun begins when two eloping couples are Latimer’s compulsory guests at the same time, and it is discovered that one of the women is the wife of the man who is there with the other woman. Surprising adventures are cooked up for the two couples by Latimer, and they have a most surprising outcome. Diana Wynyard is her best as one of the elopers, and Brook gives his usual suave characterisation to the iole of the plotting host. Billie Burke, as an eloping wife, keeps the audience in an uproar. Bdx plans at the D.I.C.