More Success for Marie Ney

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 22

More Success for Marie Ney

Praise from Critics \ NEW ZEALANDER IN LONDON ' Marie Ney, the New Zealander, has been getting some wonderful notices from the London critics and is now regarded as one of England’s finest actresses. She is playing in “People Like Us,” Frank Vosper’s play which is said to be the story of the famous Bvwaters - Thompson .

; murder case. Of her interpretation of the part |of Ethel, Alan | Parsons says: i “That fine young [ actress, Marie i Ney, plays Ethel, and succeeds wonderfully In interpreting her strange

complexities, especially her

passion for the theatrical, which was so intense as to make her actually believe in things she knew had no existence in fact, and led her to write those queer, imaginative and often beautiful letters to her lover. But Miss Ney is by nature too spiritual, too refined for this part, and somehow misses the streak of vulgarity which must have been deeply ingrained in the woman.” Miss Ney has also been playing in Sir Nigel Playfair’s revival of “Beau Austin” at the Lyric, Hammersmith. It was last played in IS9O with Tree as Beau. A critic wrote of the acting: Bertram Wallis makes a very handsome Beau, while Marie Ney, as his unhappy mistress, Dorothy Musgrave, gives a performance of real beauty; her long and difficult soliloquy in the first act was exquisitely spoken. And she can carry through a big dramatic scene without over-acting. -