"CRADLE SNATCHERS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 204, 17 November 1927, Page 15

"CRADLE SNATCHERS”

HIS MAJESTY’S TO-NIGHT The three elderly wives, as a coun-ter-blast to their husbands’ penchant for flappers, continue their cradle - snatching nightly at His Majesty's Theatre. “Cradle Snatchers,” though a trifle risque, apparently is much to the taste of Aucklanders. It certainly tickles the theatrical palate. The wives, with much truth, point out if the husbands have their flappers, there is no reason on earth why they should be denied their “cakeeaters.” Honours are very evenly divided between Bertha Belmore, Olive Sloan and Jessamine Newcombe, the wives who bring their erring husbands to book. “The Cradle Snatchers” is hung on a rather loose framework, and it is the ability of Miss Sloane which enables it to run merrily through three amusing acts to a somewhat abrupt climax. In the garden scene (which wasn’t seen, by the way). Miss Sloane was a riot, and her return with Spanish sheik thorn in Brooklyn. New York), reduced the audience to fits of laughter. “The Cradle Snatchers” has been described as “vulgar.” It is too clever to be that, and it at least has an understrata of truth about it. which is not entirely overshadowed by the numerous risky and entertaining situations in which the principals find themselves at times. It will be played again to-night at His Majesty’s Theatre.