“YOUNG WOODLEY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 679, 3 June 1929, Page 14

“YOUNG WOODLEY”

IN AUCKLAND NEXT WEEK Young Woodley,” John Van Brm stage story of college life “a ”: > staged .at His Majesty’s Vheatre !** mencing on Tuesday, June n oc ’ The combination presentinir ~ gem of English school life introd„“’ ! to theatregoers a new compare , youthful English artists, x J?L built lad, with fair wavy hair if please he is only IS. His iaL ' Howls Shaw and he plavs the "Young Woodley.” Shaw Vh^,’ grets that he is no relative of S' peat G.H.S., though ho met him U * he played in ’’Saint Joan” with eS r Thorndike, has a tuneful, unaffe' voice, and a happy and friendh- r ner. “* 4 '* Miss KataUe Moya, an English across whom audiences will soon toov as tho schoolmaster's wife with young Woodley is in love, was kS in Australia, but was taken ah.-” when still in her knitted bootie d." Miss Moya was in Africa with Mo<vitch. Michael Macowen and Geo~» Preston are two young English,-. n ' h ° P la J, the parts of the school of TVoodley.

1 rank Royde, an experienced acio producer, appears as the housema- ' Other people in the cast are Tm Brogan, a youth of 11. Q U y Hastir i and Clara Jenkins. In “Young Wav ley.” Natalie Moya is the wife of thi austere, self-centred schoolmaster r, discovers her in an embrace with ere of the students. She promises not i see the youth again. Thus does’’-, student get the idea, that she was just fooling him. He loses faith in women and the world in general, y change is only effected by the wii contriving to assure him that she scl has—and always will have—a pm love for him. Thereupon he enters his father's business with a better atcleaner view of life. “And,” remark! Miss Moya in reference to adverts comments the play has evoked, "whs have you got to say against that' The box plan opens on Frldav t Lewis Eady’s, Ltd.