BIG LONDON SUCCESS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12605, 16 November 1926, Page 4

BIG LONDON SUCCESS

“UNFAIR SEX" OPENS TO-NIGHT.-From "London via Sydney oomes Joseph Cunningham’s new English Comedy Company to open a season' at the (Grand Opera. House to-night, commencing with Erio Hudson’s fashionable faroe-comedy that ran for two years at the Savoy Theatre, London, playing daily matinees with a separate company. The London theatregoers are hardest in the world to satisfy. In fact, I have seen many productions that would have been big successes elsewhere slip into oblivion after a few nights," , comments an English critic. This demand for only the best has made the way of the playwright a hazardous one, for, if he is to win the favour of hisf audiences, he has to give them nothing but the best. With those remarks in mind one can easily gauge the repertoire of Mr Cunningham’s company,' which includes such famous successes as “The Unfair Sex," “Elizi -Comes to Stay,” “The Sport of Kings," and “Outward Bound," perhaps four of the most notable sucoesses of the London stage-during the past three years. Thus in selecting “The Unfair Sex” to open the New Zealand tour to-night no mean compliment is being paid its author. The company to • interpret these plays is olaimed to he a highly distinguished one, with the. celebrated London comedy actress, Miss Zillah Bateman,'from the principal West End theatres, .starring in association with Miss Henrietta Cavendish, Miss Sylvia Clifton, Miss Beryl Barraclough, Miss Vera St. John, and Messrs Joseph Cunnigham, Frank Bradley, Reginald Newson, Charles Maouflum, Claud Carter, Campbell Oopelin, and Jack Phillips. The company arrive direct from the Palace .Theatre, Sydney, this morning by the'Ulimaroa, and as they are due to open an important Melbourne .sealson early next year the Dominion tout must be brief. The Wellington season will extend over a fortnight, during which the four plays. mentioned above will he played. The box plans for “The Unfair Sex” are now open at the Bristol, and day sales will be available at the Grand Opera House Confectionery from 11 o’clock this morning.