"QUARANTINE."

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 3

"QUARANTINE."

A highly popular play for holiday time is !'Quarantine," now being given at the Grand Opera House. It deals with the complications winch arise when an eloping couple find themselves quarantined with the whole of the ship's passengers and company. The laSy has had no intention of eloping. She has taken the place of a foolish married friend. Much of the comedy has as its basis a bedroom scene. Mr. Lawrence Grossmith is splendid in the role of Tony Blunt, the eloping man, and the part.of hisuhwilling partner is taken by Miss Dorothy Seacombe. The play is just full- of laughter, and is prettily dressed and staged.

On Friday and Saturday the great London romantic comedy; success, "Ambrose Apple John's Adventure," will be presented. It has scored a remarkable hit, both in England and America, and has been equally successful •in Australia. The idea of the play is described as one of the most ingenious conceivable, and furnishes cause for no end of laughter, while there are times of tense dramatic incident. The hero, Ambrose Applejohn, is an easy-going, spoilt bachelor of leisure. After some exciting experiences, he falls asleep and dreams that he has become an adventurous ancestor, "Captain Applejohn," a bloodthrsty pirate of olden times. Then ensue deeds of daring of the days when buccaneers roved the Spanish main. This pirate scene is said to be a wondeful creation of the' most thrilling events ever enacted on the stage. Another successful comedy, "The Silver Fox," -which created a boom in Australia, will conclude the season. The box plans for the season' are now open.