THE STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 94, 12 July 1927, Page 16

THE STRAND

HUMPHREY BISHOP CO. There are only three more davs • the Huhphrey Bishop Comedy r ** panv at the Strand, as the Sjdiier season will open shortly. The tidal programme will be entirely new f ro rise to fall of the curtain, and will i n elude new song scenas, new corm-aC sketches by “Seratcher” ' rags by the famous Ragtime QuartettT niaved °a e se C a°s n on d o7 pici\ c-ki .1 • ii ol to \\ eoks in laide. where a weekly change of gramme was imperative, it can toe seen that to give entire changes '* J programme has been quite an matter. The box plans are open at Th' Strand, where early booking for ** hist three days is recommended ‘ le The Humphrey Bishop Company

have been famed for their sparkle and for the surprises which are continually being: unfolded. When the company opened at C hristchurch early this year the Christchurch Press was unanimous in describing the show as one of the finest of :ts kind to ever visit the Dominion. A month later, when the company paid its return visit, the same paper said: “No better tribute to the popularity of the Humphrey Company and no more striking indication of the place it holds in the estimation of the Christchurch public could have been offered than the liberal patronage on the company’s reopening night at the Theatre Royal. When the curtain rose every seat in the house was occupied, and unstinted applause encouraged the clever band of entertainers throughout the sparkling performance. Nothing quite so good of its kind has been seen here.”