PUNGENT SEASONING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 205, 18 November 1927, Page 14

PUNGENT SEASONING

“CRADLE SNATCHERS” The slaughter of innocence is completed by “Cradle Snatchers,” the laughable farce now enjoying a successful run at His Majesty’s. Relying almost exclusively on the broadest type of humour, the piece leaves no place for posing. And to date every Auckland audience has yielded to its appeal. No startling talent has been introduced by this latest production, though the cast is of sufficiently satisfying all-round merit. Playing the ringleader of a trio of rebellious wives, Olive Sloane presents a lady whose simpering artificiality explains Miss Sloane’s admission, quoted in the programme, that she has not yet found her favourite part. Three stolid husbands, each with his spouse, three timid college boys snatched from timid adolescence, and three flappers in search of a party—these are the ingredients in the mixture. It is chiefly the seasoning that counts, and that commodity is mostly supplied by a series of up-to-the-minute jests, some of which will perhaps enjoy a smoke-room circulation

for some days to come. Plus a sample of Iberian lovemaking by handsome Jose Vallerjo (John Halloran), and the delicious picture by Maury Tuckerman, masquerading as a blonde gallant who fails to come up to specifications, this is the merchandise which has sold “Cradle Snatchers” to an appreciative public. The comedy will be repeated to-night and tomorrow.