FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Now Playing: #Th e Ghost Train" (Betty Ross Clarke.) November 12 to 19: “Cradle Snatchers.” November 26 to December 8: Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co. December 21 to January 4: “Rose Marie.” CONCERT CHAMBER December 7, S and 9.—Auckland Little Theatre Society: “Pygmalion.” COMING “Tell Me More.” “Tip Toes” (Thurza Rogers). “Castles In the Air.”

George Arliss will be seen in New York this season in Philip Guedalla’s “The Painted Emperor.” It is estimated that there are 90,000 acting amateurs in England. There are 900 amateur theatrical societies in England. Blake Adams, here with Gladys Moncrieff in “Lady of the Rose,” is touring the English provinces as the comedian in “The Blue Train.” Fanny Wiseman, now at the age of SI and lying ill in a Melbourne hospital, is writing her memoirs of the stage. She is well known on the Australian stage at one time. A new institution in London, called the Children’s Theatre, lias been opened in Endell Etreet. The programmes consist of plays, sea chanties, folk songs and dancing. Performances begin at 5.45 daily and prices range from 3d to 6d (front rows, children only) and Is 2d and 2s 4d for their elders. Herbert Belmore, the producer of “Cradle Snatchers,” who also takes a leading part in this J. C. Williamson comedy, has a vast experience of stage affairs, and has been with Ziegfeld (as producer) with William Paversham, and was for years associated with Drury Lane productions. He is a son of Sir George Belmore, who was famous as Nat Gosling in “The Flying Scud.”