"SCANDAL."

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1923, Page 3

"SCANDAL."

The Sydney "Sun 1' said of Cosmo Hamilton's play, which comes to-Wel-lington on Tuesday, ,17th July,,'!3r a six nights return season, under the dfflc•with .JO. Williamson,-- Ltd.-:—"It is easily the most workmanlike of all the bedroom comedies of the last ten years, and alw ays produces a genuine dramatic tmiil. Scandal aroused much controversy m Sydney and the four New Zealand centres owing 'to the nature of the play, ihis' did not, however, mitigate against the success, Jjut rather tended-tc increase the interest on tho-part" of ~4,h* public .to see it. The piece, is .wonderfully acted, and has an'exceptionally strong cast In the big cast are first and foremost Dons Duane, who has played m this play no fewer than 500 times, iier American and English career has been meteoric. With her is Eric Harrison, one oi the best known matinee idols of the English .stage. Among hi» more distinguished roles are those of Paul Vanaayne in Elinor Glyn's 'Threa Weeks,' Danilo in : The ■ Merry Widow,' and he has, also played lead for Doris Keane. Miss. Duane presents a performance that has elicited the Highest encomiums from the Press and, public wherever she has appeared. - In her versatile piquancy aud charm she possesses the qualities essential for an adequate interpretation of the part in which she has been cast." The box plans will open on Friday at The. Bristol.