London playgoers should not miss The Hat Trick, by Thomas
Browne, when they have a chance of seeing it, as no doubt they soon will. So far it has been tried out at Brighton and Bournemouth with notable success, thanks no doubt primarily to the talent of Miss Gladys Cooper, the cricket-fan wife of a temperamental literary husband. The disturbing descent on the peaceful St. John's Wood household of a man who saved the son of the family's life in Burma and has since developed Communist views presents Miss Cooper with a triple problem (for the intruder (1) plants himself indefinitely on his hosts ; (2) falls in. love with the daughter ; and (3) impels the father to leave home and see life in order to write realistically instead of artificially) which she solves triumphantly by a particularly neat hat trick. An admirable plot and an excellent cast.
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