"SOMEONE AT THE DOOK'

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 6

"SOMEONE AT THE DOOK'

Tomorrow night will see the first pro ■ duction in New Zealand of “Someone tn the Door,” the brilliant comedy thrillc by Dorothy and Campbell Christie, whiei has been so outstandingly successful over seas. “Someone at the Door” will bv presented by the Thespians for a season of three nights in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, AVellington, and the director of t,he society, Mr. Victor S. Lloyd, who is producing the play, is cotindent that it will be one of the more successful Thespian shows. The plot deals with the embarrassment of a young freelance journalist whose brilliant ideas for increasing his and bis sister’s incomes are invariably doomed to failure. His latest scheme —the staging of a mock murder — seems likely to succeed, till (he whole business is complicated by a gang of criminals that appears on the scene, and a real murder is committed. However, everything turns out all right, in a surprising ending. The east, which is one of the strongest ever to appear in a AVellington amateur production, includes Styles F. E. AVright as .Ronnie Martin, the young journalist; Joan Goodwin as Sally, his sister; Selwyn Toogood as Bill Reid. Sally’s fiance; H. A. Painter. R. J. Larkin, John McCreary, and Arthur Rayner. The setting, an old English country house, promises to be one of the more attractive sets the Thespians will show. It: has been prepared under the direction of the stage manager, Evan Harrowell. He will be assisted, as stage manager, by Susie Painter, in charge of properties, ' and Jack McLeod as prompter. Particulars about booking are advertised iu this issue.