“THE BEST PEOPLE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 16

“THE BEST PEOPLE”

A SPARKLING COMEDY If only plays which made the audience laugh out loud were admitted to the highest ranks of comedies their number would indeed be very small. Anyone who wants to laugh should try “The Best People,” says an Australian critic, and the dramatic critic of the London “Daily Mail” describes it “as the best comedy of the past decade.” and this is the play which will be presented by Mr. E. J. Carroll for a brief season at His Majesty’s Theatre commencing on Saturday evening next. The plot of this delightful comedy concerns the adventures of Marian and Bertie, the new century products, completely emancipated son and daughter of two incompetent persons of wealth, dignity and social position. Mr. and Mrs. Bronson Lenox. Marian has had numerous experimental engagements with young men whom her father would have liked to kick and the young lady finally falls sincerely in love with the family chauffeur and Bertie selects a stage dancer. In the minds of the parents such marriages would be social disaster and with the assistance of L’ncle George they do their utmost to break off these engagements to impossible people so far beneath the social strata of “the best people.” Brother and sister are determined and their father decides to put the chauffeur and stage dancer through severe tests through which they come out with flying colours, and he has to admit they are both estimable people, though not of the best people set, and consents to the unions. While abroad Mr. E. J. Carroll 'selected the company to play in this comedy and most of them are making their first visit to the Dominion and several old favourites are members of this distinguished company. One special matinee will be given on Saturday, 21st and the box plans for “The Best People” season will be opened at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., on Wednesday morning.