“BEWARE OF WIDOWS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 208, 22 November 1927, Page 17

“BEWARE OF WIDOWS”

COMING TO PRINCESS AND TIVOLI “Beware of Widows,” Universal-Jewel feture, which comes to the Princess and Tivoli Theatres on Thursday, is the screen story of a wild and hilarious night on a luxurious houseboat with Laura La Plante. Universal’s blonde star heads a cast of superb farceurs in this drama of laughs, which was adapted from the stage success by Owen Davis. Bryant Washburn, distinguished leading man of the stage and screen, is the young doctor fiancee of the dimpled blonde who makes the mistake of serving one of his attractive female patients not wisely but too well. The result is that the indignant bride-to-be denounces him as a polygamist and goes back to her mother. When she sees in the society columns the announcement of the doctor’s forthcoming marriage to the charming widow’ whose wiles were responsible for the shattered wedding, the girl realises that she can’t live without him and determines, on the eve of the doctor’s marriage to her detested rival, to save him for herself. The audacious ruse by which she manages to get aboard the houseboat where the wedding is to take place and the means she employs in breaking down the morale of the impending nuptials makes a fast and furious farce in which the following feature cast supports Laura La Plante: Bryant Washburn, Paulette Duval, Walter Hiers, Tuily Marshall, Catherine Carver, Heinie Conklin and Otto Hoffman. Norma Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s popular star, has the leading role in “After Midnight,” a delightful romance of city life in which Miss Shearer has the finest role of her career. The story of the picture is woven around the little world of men and women who wake up when other folks retire. It is founded on facts and presents a little known side of city life in all its splendour and tragedy. Gwen Lee and Lawrence Gray are in i support of the star and the picture [will be released shortly.