FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 24

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Now Playing: "Madame Pompadour.” June 28-July 5. — “The Silent House” (Maurice Moscovitcli). July; “A Cuckoo in the Nest,” “Rookery Nook," ancl “Thark.” July: Dion Boucicault and Irene Vanbrugh. COMING “The Girl Friend.” “Castles in the Air.” Grand Opera Company. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE July 5: “Sunny,” “Archie," and “Mercenary Mary” (Elsie Prince). Coming: Grand Opera Co. CONCERT CHAMBER June 26, 28, 30 and July 2; Alfred O'Shea, Australian tenor. July: “Outward Bound.” LittSb Theatre Society.

A new musical play in London, “Marjolaine.” has Lillian Davies as its leading lady and Bob Geddes, the Auck lander, as the leading juvenile. * * * Irene Vanbrugh and Dion Boucicault are at present playing a season in Brisbane after which, it is hoped, they will tour New Zealand. * * * That very brilliant music-hall comedian, Bert Coote, who paid a flying visit to New Zealand some years ago, has arranged to appear in a new mystery play, “The Shadow,” that, after a short provincial tour, is to go to London.

“The Happy Husband,” the work of a young Australian playwright, was presented in New York recently. In the cast were Irene Browne and Lawrence Grossmith, both of whom have been in New Zealand.

Since she was last in Melbourne about 18 months ago, May . Beatty, who is once again under the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management, in “The Girl Friend” at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, has visited England, the Continent and America. “The Americans,” said Miss Beatty, “have a peculiar idea of Australia.” When she told a New York manager that she had appeared here for many years, he said: “I wouldn’t mention that, if I were you; I guess it would do you a lot of harm to tell anyone that you had played for so long in a dud country like Australia.” “I was so indignant,” said Miss Beatty, “that I walked out of his office.” Miss Beatty has a big part in “Hit the Deck,” in which “The Girl Friend” company will appear later on. Her 14 years’ old daughter, Hinemoa, familiarly known as “Bunny,” will also appear in “Hit the Deck.”