“CROOKS, LTD.”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 40, 10 May 1927, Page 15

“CROOKS, LTD.”

STUDENTS AT HIS MAJESTY’S With most people the tendency is to depreciate the local show, and, quite often, to condemn it before they have seen it. At the best they go along to be critical. In the case of “Crooks Ltd.,” the Auckland University students’ highly amusing musical farce, which had another great reception at His TVTairxat ™'"ht, those who went simply to criticise “.ame away feeling hat they had seen “jolly good show.” The plot is enirely original and che author, J. Dumble, has worked the musical numoers round it with considerable skill, it deals with a gang of “crooks” who, falling upon hard times, decide to float themselves into a limited liability company as “Crooks Ltd.,” and at the same time to carry on business as a detective agency, stealing and recovering stolen property with skill calculated to astound their clients. W. G. Trevarthen as Lulu, the female sleuth in pursuit of the peppery Colonel’s missing papers, is distinctly amusing. Local affairs and people come in for quite a lot of witty and good-natured comment One of the dainty little ladies who made such charming “traffic inspectors,” on point duty, say at Grafton Bridge, would be a sight worth going a long way to see, but who would be responsible for the hold-ups which would occur should the suggestion be adopted ?