“THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 14

“THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL”

HIS MAJESTY’S ON THURSDAY ‘ Mr. Allan “'ilkie's second production of his short 10 nights‘ season, “The School for Scandal,” will replace “She Stoops to Conquer” on Thursday next. Charming as the opening play is, “The School for Scandal” outshines it in brilliance of wit and splendid dramatic situation. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who wrote this beautiful comedy, was famous not only as a playwright, but as a poet and statesman. Incident—ally he knew the theatre well, as his father was an actor, and he himself became the manager of Drury Lane Theatre. One of the best of the many stories told of him and his lightning repartee, was when he sat drinking wine at a coffee house opposite his theatre when it was burning to the ground. and when remonstrated with by a, friend upon his apparently callous indifference to the catastrophe, he replied. ”Surely a. man may take a drink by his own fireside." "The School for Scandal” contains two of the most famous comedy scenes in English drama, the auction scene Where Charles Surface sells his family portraits to his own uncle,and the still more brilliant art of the screen scene, Where old Sir Peter Teazle discovers his young wife hiding behind the screen in Joseph Surface's rooms. The swift change from exhilarating farce to the almost tragic discoverey, provides a situation which is unique in all theatrical work. The box plan is now open at Lewis Eady, Ltd.