"THE BLUE BIRD."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1522, 19 August 1912, Page 6

"THE BLUE BIRD."

NOT COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. It will bo learned with no littlo regret that Mr. Bert Boyle, representative. In New Zealand for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., has boon advised definitely that "Tho Blue Bird' 1 (Maeterlinck's exquisite stag*, fantasy) will not be s*oll in New Zealand. Playgoers must not gain the impression from this decision that the Dominion is being in any way slighted, for, as a matter of fact, the play lias proved of too fine iv toxluvo lor Iho Australian public, and has been tbo reverse of a financial success—in Melbourne a groat failure from a box-offico viewpoint. People who havo scon the production describe it as one of the most beautiful and fascinating plays seen for years upon the Australian slagp. Mr. William Miller, of Gisborno, who returned from Melbourne lasl week, was enraptured with the. play, and the ndmirablo manner in wliicli it was produced and acted. Writing from -Melbourne. to a frieiuV in Wellington, Mr. ITarry Dimmer, whose company was ninnim: in opposition to "The Blue Bird,'! said: "It is „„ exquisitely beaulitul show, with » wonderful appeal to our inner natures, yd it lias failed here. Jhe public is an uss-fomotitne?." It will l;c remembered that 'he phy nearest, akin to "The Blue Bird"—"Peter Pan"—was also a failure in Australia yet it was a remarkable success in >," P «- Zonland. Miss I.izotte l>nrkes> impcrsona-1 (ion of "the boy who wouldn't grow up" ' is one of those performances (hat will live a long time in the theatrical niomorv.