“Wrongs & Rights"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 24

“Wrongs & Rights"

Amusing Divorce Play Divorce, treated lightly, brightly and without offence, is the subject of “Wrongs and Rights,” by Gordon Whitehead, which the Repertory Players produced at the Strand Thea tre, London recently. The scene of the prologue is the bedroom of a London hotel, where a woman is seeking to compromise herself so that her husband will divorce her. Everything is innocent really, for the middle-aged bore who is anxious to marry her merely comes to her apartments to shave in the morning. At the moment when the private detective is due to arrive a young man in pyjamas enters the bedroom in mistake for*his own. As he leaves for Borneo the same day he is cited a 3 an unknown co-respondent. Three years later the pair meet again and some neatly invented complications follow. An amusing set of characters prattle their way agreeably through the three acts. Henry Kendall as the guiltless cc-respondent, Marie Ney (the New Zealander) as the woman in the case. Wilfrid Caithness as a poker-backed baronet, Amy Veness as the wordly mother, Una O’Connor as a chirping, feather-headed spinster, and Hugh Dempster and Maisie Darrell as young lovers shared the generous applause with the author.

Pigs” will meet Melbourne audiences' first at the Comedy Theatre this evening. The cast, as now being rehearsed, includes: Alan Bunce, Ruth Nugent, Geo. Henry Trader (producer), and Mrs. Geo. Henry Trader, Viola Fortescue, Gertrude Augarde, Bertha Riecardo, Basil Radford, Reg. Newson, I George Blunt and Sydney Stirling.