Oh Mr. Post !

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 22

Oh Mr. Post !

Praise for N.Z. AMERICAN ACTOR'S GROUCH For five and a-half years, the American actor, Guy Bates Post, has been touring the world and playing in its greatest cities. “The world is pleasure mad, restless, greedy, shallow, in the condition Rome was before it fell—everything is rush, hurry and madness.’’ he told the “Los Angeles Times” on his return to the States. Even California, he said, was not the finest pjace on God's earth. To find that one had to come to New Zealand, and to Christchurch. “Christchurch is the most charming city on earth,” said Mr. Post. “Its inhabitants are gracious, kindly, leisured. “They make going to the theatre a real occasion, dress for it. “And 100,000 of them ride bicycles. “There is a lovely winding stream running through the heart of the city, with weeping willows adorning its banks —and no tomato tins and old newspapers chucked in the river bed. “The business men don’t consider the willows a detiriment to business. They have time for beauty and sweetness. "Men are courteous. “In America,” he ended, bitterly, “there is no courtesy between men, and men are courteous to women only when they demand it.” Guy Bates Post toured New Zealand three years ago, and played “The Green Goddess.” “The Masquerader,” and “The Bad Man.” White-haired and 60, Trixie Friganza (“The Marie Lloyd of America”) is back in London, at the Palace, after an absence of 25 years. Reviewers declare that she retains the charm and vivacity of a young girl.