MARGARET BANNERMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 15

MARGARET BANNERMAN

BOX PLANS OPEN There was a large demand for seats this morning for the Margaret Kannerman season, which begins on Wednesday evening next, when Anthony Prinsep’s London company will be presented by the J- C. Williamson. Ltd., management in the first production here of ‘'Other Men’s Wives, which was specially written for Miss Bannerman by Walter Hackett, the author of “Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure, wrtdch was successfully staged hero some years ago. The fact that Miss Bannerman achieved one of her most brilliant triumphs in Sydney with Other Men fa Wives” has naturally had the effect omaking playgoers keen to see her in this production, and it is a pity that a longer run of this play is not possible. The character Miss Bannerman portrays gives her scope to display her talents as a comedy and dramatic artist, and during the three acts it is said she wears some beautiful frocks. “Other Men’s ’Wives” unfolds a very interesting story. Anthony Peel and Mrs. Worthing, when their motor-car breaks down, are obliged to seek refuge at the hotel from the gale and rain. They have not long been installed in the comfortable sitting-room, where Peel, to silence the gossips, reluctantly signs the register as “Anthony Peel and wife,” when they are thrown into consternation by urgent cries from the locked room adjoining theirs, and by the sound of a scuffle, followed by sinister silence. Margaret Bannerman. as Patricia, a French maid, who comes in to wait upon the visitors, depicts magnificently the horror with which she hears of the mysterious murder, and the dismay caused to her by the prospect of being involved in police proceedings as the result of the tragedy. Comedy and dramatic situations follow one • another right up to the final fall of the curtain, in all of which Miss Bannerman exhibits the genius which has won for her a name second to no other actress on the English-speaking stage to-day. The cast also includes Ellis Irving, Lily Titheridge, Louis Goodrich, G. H. Souper, Arthur Corne, Herbert Millard, and Geoffrey Millar. On Monday next and two following evenings “Our Betters” will be staged and it will be followed by three performances of “Sexes and Sevens’’ and two of “Diplomacy.” TUDOR, REMUERA “THE PLAY GIRL” “A Race for Life,” an exciting and dramatic picture in which a, leading role is played. by the wonderful dog actor, Kin-Tin-Tin, will be shown again this evening at the Tudor Theatre, Remuera. A second attraction is provided in “The Play Girl,” in which Miss Madge Bellamy has the leading part. This is a comedy romance of a young shop girl whose love for luxury leads her to accept the attentions and gifts of a wealthy man-about-town, played by Walter McGrail. But in time she falls in love with a young western business man. played by Johnny Mack Brown, and all ends happily. HOLLYWOOD, FASHION CENTRE Hollywood is rapidly developing into one of the world’s greatest fashion centres. The word of prominent mo-tion-picture fashion creators is having more and more weight with the experts of London and ParisAt the Paramount studios may be found designers of international repute, who are bus}’ creating new and original styles for feminine wear. The various schools are very closely connected, and well-known identities in the world of fashion may often be seen at the Paramount studios. Travis Banton, chief wardrobe designer for Paramount, was recently in London, whence he travelled to Paris and the famous French watering places, and to Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Monte Carlo, studying European fashion tendencies. He is now back in Hollywood and busy with the new season’s creations which will be worn by Paramount stars, Bebe Daniels, Florence Vidor, Pola Negri, Clara Bow and Esther Ralston, in pictures which are being produced in Paramount’s “Whole Show Programme” for 1929 release. The Columbia Master Picture, “So This Is Love,*' featuring Shirley Mason, William Collier, junr., and Johnnie Walker, contains a most humorous ring fight. The fight has not been treated in a slap-stick style, but in a serious manner, in which humorous sidelines have been introduced, and the way they have been handled-makes it a real comedy novelty. “So This Is Love” is soon to be released in New Zealand.