NEW REGENT
“THE LAUGHING LADY” “The Trial of Mary Dugan," starring Norma Shearer, will finish its run at the Regent Theatre this evening. Clive Brook, who was Ruth Chatterton’s leading man in “Charming Sinners," will be seen in support of the
Paramount star for the second time, when “The Laughing Lady" comes to the Regent Theatre tomorrow’. In the comedydrama of society life, which deals with wealthy New Yorker s, their foibles and didoes. Miss Cliatterton is the wife of a wealthy banker,
who thinks more of his Wall Street than he does of his home sweet home. She becomes the innocent victim of a scandal at Southampton, fashionable seaside resort, and when her husband learns of it through the Press, lie divorces her without further ceremony. Clive Brook is the friend of the husband, and the lawyer who effects the victory for him against his wife in the divorce trial. The subsequent proceedings are alternately humorous, dramatic and romantic. The story is derived from Alfred Sutro’s play of the same name, which had a great success on Broadway.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 19
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179NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 19
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