BRILLIANT SUCCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 17

BRILLIANT SUCCESS

“A SCRAPE 0’ THE PEN’’ ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY i <-A scrape o’ the Pen.” a comedy In I three acts by Graham Moffat. l ie- ■ sented last evening b> the tet. An drew’s Society at the Concert Chamber. Produced by Kenneth Brampton. CAST wcGilo . . Kita W. MacCifllar Inglis. Margaret H.Bruee • I . . George O Spicer Hugh Menzies A \v. Leggat A Shepherd James Swan Mattha inghs . - • - - • etty Budge nwther "or Menzies, Lilian I.uston Jean _ow tner o Gordon Spence Peter lKUKtiiu . • Mollie Bruce 1 T, a . ffy iSo ' "Isabelle -M acCullay t M Lru o • • Winifred Russell ! Bennie kcott _ John Shields | Alec, mg Margaret Lee j Bridesmaid . _ j This story of love and drama in a ! quiet Scottish village is beautifulb nortraved bv characters whose !Fs deserving" of the highest commends - | tion So natural, so spontaneous, is i evert gesture, that the imagination is instantly captured and one can almost feel the breath of the neather-clad moors wafting through the cottage window So intensely realistic is the whole plav that it is difficult to imagine ' oneself anywhere but in tlie heart of the Highlands. Air Swan’s version of the brusque, irascible but great-hearted Mattha inghs is superb. Miss Leighton as ! Jean Lowther, around whose intricate matrimonial problems the story revolves, is charming. But it IS the sparkling repartee, the delightful nit ticisms and the provocative aus ot Hita MacCulluy as Flora McGilp that cantures every heart. Bettv Budge, Hugh Menzies Margaret Howie’ —all deserve the highest Sr-iise. Colour, tone and effect were faultless, and the whole periormance is one that will be long remembered.