BOLD KNIGHTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 15

BOLD KNIGHTS

BIG WALLACE SUCCESS Really bold knights clatter through three acts at St. James Theatre, brandishing an occasional spear and shouting “Oddsbodkins!” when the mood seizes them. They are in George Wallaces newest production, the farce/ When Knights Were Bold.” If George Wallace is to believed, King Arthur and his knights were not backward. George is Sir Guy de Vere, but for once he does not conceal the voluminous Wallace trousers beenath his armour. The explanation is that knights in the old days had nothing like George’s trousers. In “When Knights Were Bold,” an aristocratic young Englishman, disgusted with the reverence with which his ancestors are held, dreams that he slips back 700 years. He is unlucky, because he takes his modern ideas with him and the ancient noblemen are at a loss to understand his notions. The modern young man is left cold with his intimate acquaintance with his ancestors. When he gets back to modern thought and behaviour, he cures his household of its ancestorworship. Marshall Crosby is seen as a rollicking Irishman, Sir Brian Ballymote, and Marie Nyman scores a success as haughty Lady Rowena. Ivy Moyle, Maida Jones, Bert Dudley, Jim Romaine, Arthur Meredith and Bert Tucker are other members in a large cast. There are delightful musical numbers in the comedy and the frocking and the settings are excellent. “W hen Knights Were Bold” is the entertainment George "Wallace sta,ted he would put on in Auckland before his company made its bow to the city. And George has been playing revue successfully in Auckland for three months.