"ELIZA COMES TO STAY."

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 9 March 1927, Page 6

"ELIZA COMES TO STAY."

. ii 1 j "Eliza Comcs To Stay," "Yes, i | Eliza comes to stay all right, hut j | unfortunately for one night only." ] She comes to the Opera House tonight (V/ednesday), and you are ' hound to take her to your hearts. j Miss Zillah Bateman, w-ho scored : such a triumph in "The Unfair Sex," i during the last visit to Oamaru of the English Comedy Company, is j "Eliza," andi the characterisatipn oi' ! the part is bound to. stay in the - memory of all those who see this i hrilliant comedy, for a very long'. time. When Sandy Yerrall pr^raised : i lifelong friend that he woulcr | I cneri'.h and care for his daughter, j j he pictured a golden-haired child , ; with blue eyes and a trusting son1. j with the arrival of "E/iza" aiso j arrived a disillusionment. She asn't a cbild() and besides her. annt i had taughl her that if she wore : ihe worst of clothes she would be j perfectly ' sgfe, hut if she wore fine clothes 'hen danger would arise. ' "I'm safe nowT, but I tliink it would be nice to he dangerous for once," i is her theory. Fine clothes and i careful tuition effect 'an inconceiv1 able transformation, and "Eliza" — j or Dorothy as 'she is afterwards • called — hlossoms out into the most j beautiful of women. Miss Bateman is bound to increase her popularity in the new piece she will give to j the Oamaru public, hecause in the

ro.'.e oi naiza sne is casx as an entirely new character, which she fills to her credit: — first as the neglected, uneducated and delightfully candid waif and later as the spirited, graceful and extremely desirable young lady. Frank Bradley couldi not be better cast than in the part of Montague Jordan, the best friend of Verrall, and upon whom falls the I initial tribulations caused by the j unceremonious entrance of the fair ! Eliza. Lady Pennybroke— prim and i early Yictorian, but a matchmak'er j for all that, is pqrtrayed by Miss j Henrieita Cavendish in a very capj able manner,, while Campbell Cope1 lin as Verrall carries the part i through in a hright and breezy manS ner so suitable to his pleasing personality. "Eliza Comes to Stay" is j chock full of laughs and philosophy 1 and not without its moral. The box j plans are at The Bristol. i