WAIPAWA REGENT
"last of mrs cheyney" satijrday and monday. The glittering star triumvirate of Joan Crawford. William Powell, and Robert Montgomery come to the Rogent screen on Saturday and Monday in M.G.M.'s urbane and highly polished screen translation of Frederic Lonsdale 's stage success, ' ' The Last of Mra Cheyney." The plot revolves about a young American widow who crashes London society and is songht after in marriage by two of Mayfair's most eligible bachelors. Af.a fashionable house party a priceless rope of pearls vanishes, and Lord Dilling, one of Mrs Cheyney 's suitors, traces the theft of the pearls to the lady herself. It is when he off ers her an insidious alternative to facihg the police that the real character of the girl is made apparent. Pn. ' the end it is discovered that Mrs Cheyney 's butler is the actual thief, but the complications which bring about this final denouement cause much laughter. ■It is one of M.G.M. 's biggest laugh hits, and no wonder, with such a pair of rascals as Bill and Bob tangled up in the romantie eseapades, of joan as the girl from the "five and ten" who crashes society.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 36, 5 November 1937, Page 8
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