WILLOUGHBY-GEACH COMEDY CO.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1076, 18 December 1903, Page 3

WILLOUGHBY-GEACH COMEDY CO.

Willoughby and Ocacli, who are meeting with phenomenal success in the South, should do record business upon their welcome reappearance in Gisborne on Monday and Tuesday next. Since (lie season is limited .to two performances, the management have wisely decided to present a fresh bill each evening. We are

to seo “ Why Smith Left Home,” a new farce by the author of “ Jones,' and Topsy Turvy,” which has been freely described as even funnier than “ Charley’s Aunt.” The Sydney Morning Herald says : v The Willoughby and Geach Company, when promising the theatre-loving people of Sydney ‘something good at last,’ certainly honored the draft when they produced ‘ Why Smith I.pft Home.’- Decidedly nothing more

screamingly funny has ever been staged, and from first to last the cleverness of the author was demonstrated by the fact that he extracted fun out of the most innocent situations. A good many years ago Mr Charles Wyndham commenced a new chapter of theatrical history by the prcduccion of ‘ The Pink Dominoes,’ and Ihe rage for screaming comedy, or comedy so closely allied to farce that one could scarcely tell one from another, took on in Lomloni with the result that ‘ Charley’s Aunt ’

and ‘The Private Secretary ’ became the rage. ‘ Smith ’is apparently a worthy successor to the popular and humorous productions mentioned, and it is not too much to say that as soon as the audience caught the idea of llie author, which from (he very first was cleverly demonstrated, nothing hut laughter was heard.” The box plan for both pieces is now open at Miller's Corner.