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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 24

Muriel Starr's company has been disbanded and she is now playing in “Kempy” in Melbourne with Ruth Nugent and Alan Bunce. “Beau Geste,” which cost £B,OOO to produce, ran for only a month jn London at His Majesty’s Theatre. James Liddy will become “The Student Prince” again on Melbourne’s boat race night, May 11, when a special performance of this romantic musical comedy will follow “The Vagabond King.” * * * Sir Benjamin Fuller announces that his firm has bought the old Brisbane Town Hall, and that it will start to erect its big St. James Theatre on that site at the end of May. The stage activities of Arthur Young, who plays the part of Joshua Barney in “The Wrecker,” opening at Auckland on May 8, have been confined to Shakespeare and drama. He made his first appearance on August 4, 1914, as the second gravedigger in “Hamlet.” He then enlisted, and after the war returned to Shakespeare and played leading roles at Stratford-on-Avon festivals. Some of his recent roles have been the stationmaster in “The Ghost Train”: the madman in “The Whispering Gallery,” at the Garrick Theatre, London: and Alf, in the original production of “The Wrecker.”