FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 24

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

Now Playing.—“ Hit the Deck.” Annie Croft. December 5, January 7.—“ The Midnight Frolics,” Edgeley and Dawe. Jaunary S. —Dion Boucicault and Irene Vanbrugh. COMING "Princess Charming." “Castles in the Air.” ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing.—George Ward Revue Co. COMING “Baby Cyclone" and “Good News,” Elsie Prince and Jimmy Godden. CONCERT CHAMBER November 28, 29, 30 and December I .—Little Theatre Society’s triple bill. Tallulah, Blankhead, London actress, says that to keep down her weight her principal daily meal is limited to two courses —lamb cutlets, without a scrap of potato, and then pineapple. Henry Ainley, the English actor, is restored to health and expects to return to the West End stage before Christmas time. He has been away from the stage for some time.

Dion Boucicault and Irene Vanbrugh will come to New Zealand early in the New Year, the Dominion tour opening at Auckland on January 8. For many months this talented pair, with a first-class company, has been delighting Australian audiences with some wonderfully finished performances. Miss Vanbrugh and Mr. Boucicault are very popular stars in England, and are accepted as two of the most accomplished artists appearing in the great metropolis. They are bringing with them a particularly capable company, and they will appear in a series of plays in which they have achieved a world-wide reputation. * * * Will the English public accept a stage impersonation of the Unknown Warrior? “The Eternal Flame,” a play written by Watson Mill, owner of the Theatre Royal, Leamington Spa, includes a scene in which the Unknown Warrior rises from his tomb and addresses the audience for three minutes. Meanwhile a stormy controversy seems to be developing. When the play was first submitted the Censor Christ was included as one of the speaking characters. He refused to pass the play, and the author sul» stituted the Unknown Warrior.