ST. JAMES THEATRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 15

ST. JAMES THEATRE

GEORGE: RECORD-BREAKER Five months in one theatre in Auckland is the record established by George Wallace and his company at the St. James Theatre last evening. To celebrate the 151st and signalise the breaking of the previous record free photographs Avere distributed among the audience last evening. The houso was a record one as well as the performance. The little Australian comedian made a neat speech in which lie thanked the theatre-goers for their continued attendance at the theatre. “It is not me and my company who have broken the record; it is you, by your continued attendance week after week who have enabled it to be done,” be said. He had been treated wonderfully well in Auckland and the members of the company had been here so long that they felt at home and did not like leaving it. This evening a new programme will commence entitled “Me and My Girl.” in which the inimitable George will appear as a female cook. “PLAY GIRL” AT BRITANNIA “The Play Girl,” now at the Britannia Theatre, is a delightful comedy romance of a girl employed in a florist’s shop who becomes envious of the beautifully groomed and dressed women to whom she sells flowers. Envy becomes an obsession and the girl determines to accept the gifts of clothes and jewels of a wealthy man-about- ’ town. The picture is splendidly directed and all sordidness and vulgarity has been left out. Instead, laughter, joy and romance are the key-notes and never before, perhaps, has Miss Bellamy played with such whole-hearted abandon. Johnny Mack Brown plays the masculine lead opposite the star and is ideally cast as the handsome lover. "The Michigan Kid.” the second big attraction, stars Conrad Nagel as a gambler in the Alaska of IS9S. The young English actor, John I.Oder, has one of the leading roles ir Paramount’s latest Zane Grey story. “Sunset Pass,” which will be one of the early silent picture releases.