The Price of Wisdom

A quota quickie from across the pond that withe exception of Roger Livesey I doubt most Americans would know who thes people are.

Mary Newland is a girl brought up in rural England goes to London for career, for a man, and to explore life not in that order necessarily. She takes up with a leather merchant Robert Rendel who gives her a job and wants to make her his wife.

A quarrel with one of his workers Roger Livesey over a patent leads to Livesey's discharge and Newland leaving too.

Nothing terribly original here, but the story and players are easy to take.

Mary Newland has a sizable inheritance, but she also wishes to make something of herself. She hies off to London, where she goes to work for Robert Rendel. She's also friendly with fellow employee Roger Livesey. Livesey has developed a nice business idea, so Miss Newland backs him. However, Rendel, who wants to marry Miss Newland recognizes that Livesey is more than a business partner, so he sues the new firm, claiming that the idea belongs to him as their employer.

It's a pleasant quota quickie directed by Reginald Denham, Miss Newland's husband at the time. There isn't much to it, but at 64 minutes, it's a competent second feature, with Mary Jerrold shining as Miss Newland's mother.

An amusing slice of 'Olde England' from the mid-thirties, when country 'gals' could meet interesting 'chaps' on the London-bound train, be offered a position without CV, interview or apparent qualifications for the role, and stay at The Ritz. Plot develops quickly, with Roger Livesey as 'Peter North' vying with Robert Rendel's 'Alfred Blake' for 'Jean Temple', played by attractive Mary Newland. If for nothing else, worth watching by history buffs for LNER trains, some 'Art Deco' door motifs and scenes of central London by night. Previous reviewer has confused the actresses, perhaps by the way IMDb has them listed. Mary Jerrold plays the mother, and it's Mary Newland who's the 'love interest'...6/10