Repertory Theatre “Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 14

Repertory Theatre

“Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round”

r jPHE Wellington Repertory Theatre Society has chosen Gordon Daviot’s new play “The Laughing Woman” in three acts and nine scenes with a cast of thirty one characters, for their first production in the new year. The long cast is now completed and the play in rehearsal under the direction of Mr. Leo du Chateau. It will be presented in the Concert Chamber in March. The London "Stage” in its preface to the full column review says: “In this play the Scots lady who writes under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot has done a notable thing. She has followed her first and very successful play “Richard of Bordeaux’ with another and far finer one. As it also happens to be remarkably well acted and was received with marked enthusiasm at its first performance it should enjoy a career as prosperous a» that of its predecessor.” It is based on the true story of the young French sculptor Henri Gaudier and tis alliance with the writer Sophia Brzeska; their "emigration from France to England, their poverty, their idealism, their conflict with the social and commercial world, the" young man’s return to to enlist on the outbreak of war in 1914 and his death in the year following.

’J'O millions of persons of all ages throughout a far-flung Empire, Sydney Howard is the funniest man alive. He is Great Britain’s Charlie Chaplin, Eddie Cantor and Harold Lloyd rolled into one. Sydney Howard appears in his first American made film in Reliance’s “Transatlantic Merry-go-round,” shortly to be released by United Artists, as a member of an all-star cast, including Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Gene Raymond, Mitzi Green, Sid Silvers and the Boswell sisters. Howard is a “Yorkshire man” born in the old town of Yeadon. Like Chaplin, Howard is a master pantomimist. He says his work is largely a matter of arms, legs and eyes. "Business” with his wonderfully expresive hands convulses millions, and for that reason they are insured for £20,000 by Lloyd’s of London.