RECORD SALARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 26

RECORD SALARY

Evelyn Laye Goes to New York Evelyn Daye, the Dondon musical comedy actress, has signed a contract

to appear shortly in the New York production of Noel Coward’s operette, “Bitter Sweet.” Her salary will be the largest ever paid to a musical comedy actress. Miss Daye said that she preferred not to disclose the exact salary she was receiving. It

would be over £I,OOO a week. “It is a record one", and that is all I can say,” she added. “The production will be put on in the autumn, and I shall stay on after that for the talking-film in which I am to appear over there.”

The chief Christmas attraction for New Zealand, as far as can be determined, will be the musical comedy company headed by Alfred Frith, playing “The Five O’clock Girl.” The company is now in Sydney and is to stage “Hold Everything” for the first time in Australia.

“Rose Marie” is to be revived in Melbourne by the "Show Boat” company. Now what about Marie Breraner staying back from New Zealand and “The Desert Song” company “on private business?” asks an Australian paper. Miss Bremner was to have played the lead in the New Zealand production of “The Desert Song.”

One of the most remarkable features of the triumphal success of the war play “Journey’s End” which will be the next big J. C. Williamson attraction for New Zealand, is that this English play has been acclaimed in European as well as in Englishspeaking countries. It has been translated into - nine different languages, published in book form in the same number of languages-, and is generally accepted as “great in conception in its realism and deep insight into the psychology of the men in the trenches, and being entirely free from melodramatic insincerity and cheap stage clap-trap.”