Popular Play

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

Popular Play

TAR. MERTON HODGE’S play, “Ths Wind and the Rain,” reached its 500th performance at London St, Martin’s last month, and continues to delight Londoners. It is to be staged here shortly by the Williamson com" pany that commences its New Zealand season at Auckland to-morrow night, with “Ten Minute Alibi.” It is a comedy dealing with the psychology of medical students in relation to feminine influence, and in particular of the love affair of Charles Tritton and Ann Hargreaves—the latter a sculptress in the same lodging-house as young >Trittpn. It is a comedy drama in which Edinburgh and Chelsea form the main backgrounds, against which is worked our the triangle of a young man’s infatuation for a fellow student, and the pull of an absent fiancee. Humour a-plenty and romance in excelsis make of “The Wind and the Rain” more than merely entertaining comedy. It is a brilliantly constructed play that has taaen England and America by storm and should repeat its world success in the native country of its author. George Thirwell, Jocelyn Howarth, Arundel Nixon, Guy Hastings, Ronald Atholwood. Alan Rankin, Patricia Minchin, Nan Taylor, Tommy Jay, Richard Fair, Ronald Roberts, Frank Bradley and Russell Chapman will interpret it.