POLISHED ACTING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20416, 21 September 1934, Page 3

POLISHED ACTING.

Diana Wynyard and Brook in “Let’s Try Again.” Smooth and polished acting by Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard is a feature of “ Let’s Try Again,” the screen version of Vincent Lawrence’s famous play, “ Sour Grapes,” which will be presented at the Regent Theatre to-niglit. This popular team have been co-starred once more after their success in A. A. Milne’s delightful comedy “ The Dover Road.” and the finished characterisations which they give make the picture a worthy successor to their last co-starring effort. “ Let’s Try Again ” is a marital drama of complications, which develop a triangular or rather a quadrangular aspect and works itself out in time-hotaoured fashion. The play has been transported to the screen almost bodily. Being in the nature of a problem play, and dealing as it does with the near break-up of a marriage on the rocks of a love which has grown careless and unenthusiastic, the film probably will have a great appeal to all picture-goers. Clive Brook is the successful and wealthy physician, Diana Wynyard his wife. Helen Vinson, a dancer who has been cured of a leg accident by Brook, is in love with him. Brook and his wife find themselves after ten years of married life getting on each others nerves, continually quarrelling. Irene Hervey, Brook’s niece, is engaged to Theodore Newton. On the night of the tenth anniversary of their wedding, planning to attend a fancy dress party. Brook and Miss Wynyard quarrel and she goes alone. Returning, she sits in the moonlit garden, and Newton, after leaving Miss Hervey at the door, sees, falls in love with, and expresses his feelings for Miss Wynyard. Miss Hervey is a witness from the window, and next morning, denouncing the two, precipitates an open break and a calm separation between Miss Wynyard and Brook. Box plans at the D.I.C.