The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931

The Wiser They Are. Bruce Ingram had an uncanny fascination for women. They buzzed about him like gnats on a Mississippi mule. When he came home from Europe he was pursued all the way to his apartment by a Junoesque married lady. "How did it happen?" asked his friend.

"That's what I wondered," said Mr. Ingram, "when I woke up."

"And you call that living!"

"No. Traveling."

But then Mr. Ingram falls in love with his ward Trixie, a chronic flirt. Thereafter neither can trust the other. Even on their honeymoon...

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