FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 625, 30 March 1929, Page 20

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Now Playing: ‘The Patsy," Irene Homer. April 17: Sir Harry Lauder and company. » May 15, May 23: ‘‘The Midnight Frolics,” Bdgeley and Dawe. COMING “The Desert Song.” “The Wrecker.” ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing George Wallace Revue Company. COMING “King of Kawau,” University Students. Pat Hanna’s “Diggers.” “Baby Cyclone” and "Good News,” Elsie Prince and Jimmy Godden. “Rio Rita,” Gladys Moncrieff. CONCERT CHAMBER April 10, 11, 12 and 13: “Bird in Hand,” Little Theatre Society. Noel Allan, the New Zealander, in Auckland last with “Rose Marie,” is singing in vaudeville in England. “The Vagabond King,” which has just concluded a tour of New Zealand, will open in Melbourne on March 30. John Ralston, who has not been seen in Australia since the season of Gilbert and Sullivan opera, is to appear in “The Desert Song.” “The Dover Road,” which is being played by the National Repertory Theatre (Wellington) has the following cast: Misses Zita Chapman, Dorothy Hadfield, M. Preedy, Ngaire Coster, Messrs. O. N. Gillespie, Charles Ashford, R. E. Pope, Maurice James, John Brown, Jasper Baldwin. * * * Margaret Bannerman will make her farewell appearance in Australia on March 23. Miss Bannerman intends to have a holiday before returning to the London' stage. She will appear in a new play, and it may be one by Edgar Wallace. That author has suggested that in a play he is writing there is a character that would suit her well. • * * Vera Gerald, who appears as the mother of the irrepressible Patsy in the comedy fo that name which opens at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening, is an artist of distinction. Miss Gerald was once asked to enumerate the number of plays in which she had appeared in prominent parts, and she seriously set out to supply the information. Even with the records at her disposal this stage favourite found it impossible to do so. Probably two of the most outstanding characters she practically created were the leading roles in “Jane Shore” and “The Man From Blankly’s.” * * * Cecil Haines, here with several J.C.W. shows, h ,s cabled her people in Sydney that s 1 e is to open in London at Easter in the “Little Accident,” under an American management, the name given being Overmann. She played in “The Terror,” until fairly late last year, and was then offered the part of Mrs. Clutter in “No Other Tiger,” by the same management— Dennis, Neilson Terry—for the London production. Cecil was advised not to play this part if she could avoid it, as it was drab, and she didn’t.