“LADY MARY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 24

“LADY MARY”

Frederick Lonsdale, author of “The High Road,” “Spring Cleaning,“The Last of Mrs Cheyney,” and other witty comedies, wrote his first musical play, “Lady Mary,” in collaboration with J. Hastings Turner. It is a musical comedy of the highest order, and has met with great success in London, produced with George Grossmith in the lead. “Stop your foolish mouth!” “My mouth isn’t foolish. It's what comes out of it that’s so silly.” # # “ Waghorn? Ah, yes — that’s the name! 1 knew it was something to do with a dog.” * * * “What kind of a farm are you going to run?” “Oh —/ think a chicken and ham.” •Jf - Tt # “ You've so many manners you're hardly a man.” # # * “If 1 ever meet you again , you will find yourself interfering with the quietness of a pond.” * # -*■ “I'm the man the rabbit fears!” ■Jt - 4? 4r “So woman can ever love a man properly unless she is loved by two.” ■* * * “What is the death rate from evening dress?” * * * “Any sane man would rather die than take his aunt to the Berkeley.” * “I take rather a gloomy view of life. 1 learnt it at my father’s knee.” “Sincerity, however foolish, is never silly”