MOSCOVITCH SEASON

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 319, 2 April 1928, Page 12

MOSCOVITCH SEASON

BOX PLANS OPEN TO-MOMOf To-morrow morning, at Lew* Eady, Ltd., the box plans will b« opened for the approaching season of Maurice Moscovitch and the J. £ Williamson, Ltd., dramatic company* who are to make their appearance at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday night next in Edgar Wallace’s thrilling and mystifying drama, ’The Ringer.” This play has proved fo* most successful drama staged in Sydney and Melbourne during the past years, and is regarded as being by far the finest play in the splendid repertoire of Mr. Moscovitch. “The Rinf*** is described as an exciting and remarkably fine entertainment. The battle of wits between Scotland Yard and the master “crook” is an evergreen, inexhaustible theme for the novel and the stage, and “The Pwinger" is a dramatised version of one of Edgar Wallace’s most popular and roo?t thrilling detective yarns. Of its xyp* this mystery play is said to be a mas* terpiece. It has real mystery, abundant humour, and swiftly-moving inri* dent. There are many strange charaeterl in the play, a very elusive and mysi terious personage who murders PJ®P" I who do not “play the game”; a rinister villain of a lawyer whose mood* vary from that of repellent braggadocio arrant cowardice and sickening fear of the hand of death, shadow of which he sees in thiugj most commonplace, many crooks anmany detectives and police superintendents; and a couple of very loyal women. In this gripping play Moscovitch is said to give of his very best. In one tense scene his stars horror, as he listens to the footsteps of the avenger in the room above, said to hold the audience spellboundThere are many notable artisw » the company, including the noted Inn* don actor Patric Curwen, who brought out from London play his original part of Dr. the divisional surgeon of Yard; Nat Madison, who has “road the part of Sam Hackitt. a former co j vict; Reginald Newson (Detective- : geant Wembury), Ashton Jarr ® ( .~n ; tective-Inspector Bliss), George b* f (Station-Sergeant Carter), Miss > • | MacGregor (Cora Ann Milton), - Bertha Riccardo (Mary Lenley). King, a New Zealander (Mrs. t : itt), and others. - g “The Ringer” will be played, i limited number of nights, ana j followed by “The Terror, ’ inou ‘ ; sensational drama.