DAYLIGHT SAVING AFFECTS THEATRES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 474, 2 October 1928, Page 1

DAYLIGHT SAVING AFFECTS THEATRES

ENGLISH ACTOR’S ' ' OPINION STAGE IN A BAD WAY Daylight saving has seriously affected the London theatres. This is the opinion of Louis Goodrich, who arrived this morning from Sydney, to play in support of Margaret Bannerman.

Mr. Goodrich left London only a few months ago, and says that the London theatres are in a bad way at the present time.

This, he says, is principally due to the indifferent plays which have been presented recently, daylight saving, and the fact that the public has grown tired of the crook drama with which the stage has been swamped. Mr. Goodrich’s last appearance in London was in “The Road to Rome,” after ■which he left on a motoring tour through the West of England. “I nearly missed the trip to Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr. Goodrich. “No one knew where I was when the cable came from Australia. My wife

opened it, and had a paragraph inserted in the ‘Daily Mail,* and someone spotted me.” Mr. Goodrich has been on the London stage for 25 years, and until he accepted his present contract he had only once left it, and that was to tour South Africa. He is a keen fisherman, and has brought his rods and lines. In the hope of catching some trout. There is excellent rainbow trout fishing in South Africa, he says. LILY TITHERADGE RETURNS Associations with the best traditions of the Australian stage are recalled by the arrival of Lily Titheradge, who has returned to the stage after an absence of 20 years to play in Margaret Bannerman’s company. In private life Miss Titheradge is the wife of Dr. Herrick Knowles, wellknown Sydney medical man, and a descendant of Robert Herrick, the poet. Miss Titheradge comes of a distinguished stage familv. She is a daughter of the late George Titheradge, the famous character actor, and a sister of Dion Titheradge, author and producer, and of Madge Titheradge, who recently married and left the stage. “Although I have not appeared on the professional stage for 20 years, I still appear occasionally m repertory in Sydney,” said Miss Titheradge, this morning. “I have played in several of the Gregan McMahon productions.”