“MR. WHAT’S-HIS-NAME”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 17

“MR. WHAT’S-HIS-NAME”

TO BE PLAYED ON TUESDAY Percy ITUtchison, the brilliant London actor-manager, who will make his final two appearances here to-night and on Monday in “The Laughing Optimist,” will on Tuesday night present for the first time to playgoers of Auckland the delightfully humorous and very interesting comedy, “Mr. What’s-His-Name,” in which Mr. Hutchison and his excellent company achieved one of their best successes in Sydney and Melbourne. “Mr. What’s-His-Name” was adapted from the French by Seymour Hicks. Briefly the story is as follows: Adolphe Noblet, married to a charming wife, Juliette, meets with a railway accident that apparently was fatal. His widow, after two years of mourning, marries an old friend, Gustave Corton, and a daughter is born to them. Just at this juncture, Juliette’s friends and her maid begin to sing the praises of a certain hairdresser in Paris. He clever at his work, and the fact that he is the husband of the sprightly Suzette, and the father of boys, in no way prevents his being fatally attractive to many of his clients. It is his way to beguile the tasks of shingling and waving with pleasant flirtations. Occasion brings this hairdresser to the apartment of Juliette, when, to her horror, she recognises in him her first husband, Adolphe, who, it tr*anspires, did not die as the result of the railway accident, but entirely lost his memory. One Dr. Baudin restores this by means of auto-suggestion, and then complications are fast and furious. Adolphe remembers nothing of the hairdressing experience, and endeavours to continue life with Juliette as hitherto. But of Juliette’s husbands there are now unfortunately two. Nor does misfortune end here. There* are Adolphe’s second wife and the four little sons to be reckoned with; there are Mariertne, the parlourmaid, and Sylvaine, the lady of fashion, who both have claims on the confidential barber and are as annoyed as Gustave Corton to find him established in Madame Gorton’s house. As for Juliette herself, she knows not to which of her husbands she should turn, for she loves them both. Only four performances can be staged of “Mr. What’s-His-Name” and on Saturday next and the two following evenings the season will close with presentations of “The Luck of the Navy.” MUNICIPAL CONCERT A concert will be given in the Town Hall on W ednesday evening next, when Miss Mary Wild will be the vocalist. The organ numbers will include works by Bach and Wider the Andante movement from Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony” and Dudley Buck’s transcription of “Home, Sweet Home.”