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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 660, 11 May 1929, Page 26

j Lilian Crisp, in Auckland with the I Gilbert and Sullivan operas and other j J.C.W. productions, is playing Kathie \ in a revival of “The Student Prince” in Melbourne. She is Australian-born. Seymour Hicks has contracted to make talkies, probably including the musical play, “The ! Catch of the Sea-

son” and also | “Sleeping Partj ners.” He says it i means dropping ! stage work for two years. Seymour Hicks is one of the I foremost English comedy actors. He visited Australia ! and New Zealand in 1925. He has written 56 plays.

j including the two mentioned as probj able talkies, and several books dealing I with the theatre. j Francis Lister and Angela Baddeley j are appearing in “Quality Street” at j the Haymarket, London. J. M. Barry | attended the rehearsals. “When the ; famous author is looking on,” says a London writer, “there must be no I talking in the wings, no moving about | of scenery, and no shirking of detail, j The other day Mr. Lister had to walk j three times, past a window before he I could get the movement to Mr. Barrie’s satisfaction."