AN IAN HAY COMEDY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 15

AN IAN HAY COMEDY

The box plans for the Wellington Repertory Theatre's production of Air. lan Huy's comedy, •'llouseinaster,’’ are now open. "Housemaster” will be staged in the concert chamber of the Town Hall, AVellington, under the direction of Air. Leo Du Chateau, for live performances, the first being next Tuesday, beginning at 8 p.m.

Air. Philip Page, the well-known critic, of Hie London "Sphere,” was certainly prophetic iu his review of this delightful comedy. He said, “I have not read Air. lan Hay’s novel ‘The Housemaster,’ •but if it is anything like tlie play of the same name founded on it. it is a perfectly credible picture of public school life as it is. Certain departures and adornments must, of course, be allowed. School life is not an entertainment which anyone would pay to see —and I feel that peoyile will be paying to see this play for quite a long time (it ran for (163 performances in London alone) aud since, I believe, no play has ever been successful without a certain number of young ladies in it. the author has put; this point to rights, Here is a humorous' story us well as a humane one, and caricature is almost entirely avoided.”