PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

, “THE LADY CONSENTS.” Herbert Marshall is again cast as a ! successful doctor in “The Lady Con-1 sents” screening finally to-night at the Plaza Theatre. Ho gives his usual polished performance as a man who, tiring c-f his wife, is attracted by a pretty face and divorces her in order to marry this new star in his firma-

ment. The second marriage is unsuccessful, and he soon discovers that his wife, Jerry Mannerly (played by Margaret Lindsay) is using him as a step-ping-stone to a higher social position for herself. Michael (Herbert Marshall) somewhat belatedly realises that he really loves his former wife (Ann Hauling), but the woman to whom he is married refuses to give him up, although she knows that he no longer loves her. The picture then traces the efforts of Michael and his former wife to force the other woman to divorce him. and the film ends on a note of comedy. The supporting programme includes a clever coloured cartoon. “Party Wire.’’ Concerning itself c lire fly with the I titania and comedy of small town life in the United States, “Party Wire,' j Columbia picture, opens to morrow at ‘ tiic Plaza Theatre, .lean Arthur and : Victor Jory aie co featured in the I film. Jory, whose stalwart physique | and handsome appearance have won i him widespread popularity during his | three years on the screen, is seen as I the must eligible bachelor iu the village of Rockridge. lie returns after a seven years 'absence to take charge or the family dairies, which are the mainstay of the town. Miss Arthur, who recently won outstanding recognition for her interpretation of the wisecracking stenographer in “The W’.iuie Town’s Talking," is seen as the one unwed girl in Hockridge who does not set her cap for the new arrival. Instead, she- sprays his best suit with bug-powder! Purely by accident, however. Geneva Mitchell, the attractive brunette daughter of the town banker, is out to get Jory for herself. She is spurred on by her club-woman mother. Clara Blandick. who runs a close race with. Maude Ebumc when it comes to spreading malicious gossip about everyone else in town. Also on the programme is “We’re Only Human," with a cast headed Dy Preston Foster, James Gleason and Jane Wyatt.