“THE PATSY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 622, 26 March 1929, Page 17

“THE PATSY”

BOX PLANS OPEN TO-MORROW

To-morrow morning at 9 o’clock the box plans will be opened at Lewis Eady, Ltd., for the brief season of the charming domestic comedy-drama, “The Patsy,” which is to be staged by the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management, for the first time here on Saturday night next. A queue w'ill be formed from an early hour, so that the earliest arrivals may be assured of having first choice of seats. t The world-wide success which has been won by “The Patsy” is due to its brilliant and original dialogue, its delightful and refreshing comedy, and to its fascinating story, the unravelling of which keeps the audience intensely interested right up to the final fall of the curtain. Patricia Harrington, the Cinderella of the Harrington family, invests in a set of widely-advertised text-books on potted wisdom, entitled “Wise and Witty Sayings for All Occasions,” from which she culls her favourite parody, “All the World’s a Stage, but Most of Us are only Stage Hands,” and as opportunity knocks at the door, she slowly rises to the top of the hill, and elbows the proud sister oLit into the wings. . Opportunity knocks in the guise ot Tony Anderson, one of her sister’s rejected suitors. Tony, in addition to being something of a successful realty broket', is a keen student of psychology, and gives Pat her first lessons in that art which a naughty Roman generation learned nearly 2,000 years ago from one Ovidius Naso. This art of winning husbands is a slow game. It must be taken in easy stages. First you find the man and be sure you lovo him. Then find the things he is interested in, and take an interest in them yourself. Discover his pet dreams and his ambitions, and the battle is half over. Lastly, to put the finishing touches on the.work, you have got to make him jealous. Such is the brief course of lessons which Pat learns with clockwork precision from her lover, and with a good deal greater interest in the subject than the method.

As Patricia Harrington Miss Irene Homer is said to be as perfect as it is possible for an actress to be in cl part, and she is splendidly supported by a company of specially selected artists, including A. S. Byron, Mr. Brandon Peters, Mr. Sam Wren. Miss Eileen Sparks and Miss Vera Gerald. The production is staged under the personal supervision of Mr. George D. Parker, who saw the original New York representation of “The Patsy. The company arrived this morning by the Maunganui.

DANCE AT NEWMARKET

Another gay dance will be held in the Municipal Hall, Newmarket, this evening. There will be balloons, streamers and Monte Carlo dances, also chocolates and cigarettes. Lauri Paddi’s Orpheans will play.