COMEDY FOR REGENT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 26 July 1934, Page 3

COMEDY FOR REGENT.

Many Amusing Situations in “Where Sinners Meet.”

“ The Cat and the Fiddle ” will be shown finally to-morrow night at the Regent Theatre. The play by A. A. Milne, best known as “ The Dover Road,” has been produced as. a talking picture under the title “ Where Sinners Meet,” and will head the new programme at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. A critic describes it as high comedy in an English setting. Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook, who distinguished themselves in “ Cavalcade,” have the leading roles. Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray, who have important supporting parts, create, with Reginald Owen, most of the comedy, and their talent rivals that of the stars. The plot is as whimsical as one might expect from A, A. Milne. A wealthy Englishman (Clive Brook) is found conducting a comfortable home staffed by a burlesque squad of servants on the Lon-don-Dover Road, the route travelled by eloping English couples on their way across the Channel to France for divorce and marriage. He traps the blithe adventurers into his house, and there shows up to each the other’s objectionable manners, habits and traits so that they come to their senses.. Anne end Leonard (Diana Wynyard and Reginald Owen) are two such couples who fall into the clutches of this mysterious man and are forced to stay the night. At breakfast Anne finds her lover much less romantic, and they both discover that there have already been at the house a week Leonard’s wife and another man—undergoing' the same treatment. Witty dialogue keeps the audience a-titter. Box plans at the D.I.C.