ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3938, 4 May 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL.

One of the most famous of modern British plays—“ His House in Order,” coimes to the Town Hall in its film form to-night. “His House in .Order” is the tale of a woman, worshipped as a saint by her husband, who turns out, after death, to have been anything but saintly. But before the revelation comes, her successor has had to bear the torments of invidious comparison —particularly on the part of her predecessor’s priggish and Puritanical relations. The play is a scathing and dramatic exposure of wifely, or unwifely, deception, and men’s blind infatuation—with a plea, too, for the bright and lighthearted wife, who wears her heart on her sleeve but is none the less honest and reliable for all that I Written by England’s premier dramatist, Sir Arthur Pinero, it is full of that deft craftsmanship for' which lie is fatmons, while the acting of Tallulah Bankhead—who is supported by lan Hunter (of “The Ring” fame), and a .distinguished cast is marked by all the piquant individuality which has given that great actress her foremost place on the stage. With “Raising the Wind” (Comedy), and British News. Usual prices. Betty Compson will be seen on Monday in “The Ladybird,” a mystery drama written around the doings of a gang of crooks at the famous annual Alardi Gras at New Orleans. Usual prices.