MUSICAL COMEDY FOR OPERA HOUSE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 8

MUSICAL COMEDY FOR OPERA HOUSE

Thursday night will 6eo the first production in Ncw\Zealand of tho musical comedy from Wyndham’s Theatre, London, “The Girl Behind the Counter,” which Mr David Devett is producing at the Grand Opera House in aid of St. Mary’s Home, ICarori.

The name part is played by Alice Harris, who, as Winifred Willoughby, the daughter of General and Lady Willoughby, masquerades as an assistant in tho flower department of La Maison Duval, and falls in lorve with her first customer, Charles Chetwynd, just back from West Africa. Norman Byrne is Chetwynd. Both Mrs Harris and Mr Byrne are the possessors of beautiful voices and do ample justice to Howard Talbot’s music. The comedy is in the capable hands of Liliian Grey, Mollie Plimmer, Kathryn Murie, Mabel Robertson, Robert Charlton, Jack Cannon, Joseph Hunt, .Harold Abbott, James Moßryde, and Leslie Anderson. In addition to Florence Hcvworth and Philip Low, tho speciality dancers include Joan Carter, Muriel Wilton, Gladys Smyth, Irene Wilton, Iris Low, Zcena Holden, and Doe Wheeler. Mossrs Kirkcaldie and Stains aro supplying gowns, millinery, etc., for display in the first act. Mr Lon Barnes is in charge of tho music. Box plan is now' open at the Bristol, where holders of six-shilling tickets may reserve their scats.