TRIPLE BILL FOR LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 22

TRIPLE BILL FOR LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY

The Auckland Little 'j Theatre Society's next production will be a triple bill, the dates for which will be November 28, 20, 30 and December 1. John Galsworthy's “Punch and Go" has been chosen definitely for production . This will be the first time Galsworthy has been done by repertory here . His j “fi 'kin Game" was presented i by J. C. Williamson some [ time ago with Frank Harvey j in the lead. Rehearsals are proceeding I satisfactorily and an excel- j lent season is expected.

Isabel vVilford, daughter of Mr. T. M. Wilford, Wellington, is receiving

good notices from.the London critics for her work in “A Damsel in Distress/* the Hay-Wodehouse comedy which is a big London success,

Clarice Hardwicke, in New Zealand with Clay Smith and Lee White, and now an established London success, is playing in “A Damsel in Distress,” by lan Hay and G. P. Wodehouse. For “The Vagabond King,” to be done ip Sydney shortly, George Highland will assemble on behalf of 16 Scottish archers, 34 tavern frequenters, courtiers and huntsmen, 33 Court ladies and tavern girls, and 15 dancers and pages. The cast of principals will be 26 strong. • * * A company of British actors and actresses, headed by Robert Atkins, is to play Shakespeare, Sheridan, Congreve and Wycherley in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities of the East and the principal cities of Europe. Marie

Ney, the Wellington girl who has aoue so well In London, may be a member of the company. Commencing with a few well-aimed shafts against the methods of a sec tion of the English v> reßSj the p [ ay “Interference” which opened at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, last week, develops rapidly into the Inevitable suicide scene in the luxurious flat of the woman blackmailer, from which point all manner of Intricate complications develop. Outstanding, in the part of Sir John Manlay, the well-known London surgeon, is Charles Hallard, who was out here three years ago with the Vanbrugh-Boucicault Company. His acting is Impressive, and he fits perfectly into his role. Leon Gordon as the cynical roue who has been told he is within an inch of death, owing to the life he has been leading, is convincingly sinister, while May Collins as Derobas Kane gives a good inter pretation of a woman of the neurotic type. Her scene with Zillah Bate man as Faith Manlay, the wife of the surgeon, and subject of the other woman’s blackmail, was warmly applauded.