“MERCENARY MARY”
AT ST. JAMES THEATRE In “Mercenary Mary,” at the St. James, Miss Elsie Prince gives her best performance of the present season. As Mary she is not really mercenary, but simply obedient to the advice of a “careful” mother, and when a rich uncle objects to her husband she calls in a boy friend -To compromise her so that she may get a divorce, win back the fortune, and remarry her husband. That is an outline of the story, but every now and then the cast seems to forget it and stage an attractive dance to delightful music. With pretty dresses and the haunting songs the result is an unequalled light, after-din-ner, entertainments Mr. Godden, who becomes the slow, dismal Christopher Skinner, discards
the letter R from his pronunciation, and is even more amusing in dismal mood than in cheerful one. But Elsie Prince is just as successful a comedienne. In Ihe scene in which she takes too much to drink she is devastatingly funny. And her dancing is a delight. Miss Kellie Beane has most of the best songs of the piece, and always makes the most of them. Chariton Morton is as slick as ever, and is an excellent foil to tlie dismal Jimmy Godden.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 15
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