“THE CRADLE SNATCHERS”
COMING TO HIS MAJESTY’S Considerable interest will probably be taken in the initial production t Auckland of the sensational Londo: comedy success, “Cradle Snatcher*, which is to be staged at His Majesty's Theatre by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., rc Thursday, November 10. It is at present being played by nc fewer than ten different companies ii America and England, and in Austral* it created a profound sensation, breaking all known records in Sydney aw Melbourne. “Cradle Snatchers” will introduce t» New Zealand audiences a brilliaE company of English comedy stars, ib* eluding the famous London actit*. Miss Olive Sloane; Jessamine Nevcombe, Bertha Belmore, Herbert Bei* more, Maury Tickerman, John Halloran, Fred Coyngham and others. “If words mean anything,” wrote * Sydney critic, “some of the lines 40 frankly suggestive. But the hurncaw speed, the riotous hilarity, the abaurt situations, and the incongruity of tnr« elderly grass widows flirting with tnn* callow youths, young enough to «* their sons, rob the play of all o®®* siveness.” The box plans will opened at Lewis R. Eady and ©o Ltd., on Tuesday morning next.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 14
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