FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 26

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Now Playing.—“ Lombardi Limited” (Leo Carillo). February 22.—Ernie Lotinga in comedy. ST. JAMES THEATRE Now_ Playing. —Talking pictures. Coming. —Freddie Forbes Musical Comedy Company; League of Notions Revue Company, Hector St. Clair Revue Company. THEATRE INDEFINITE May 17-24.—“A1l Quiet on the Waterfront,” Auckland University Students. Roy Russell, here in "Queen High,” had a small son at the end of the year, and between being a father for the first time and playing the lead m "Rose Marie” with Edith Day in the Drury Lane (London) revival, there is no holding him, his friends say. Mary Macrae (Mrs. Russell) is too busy being an ideal mother to think of the stage these days. Mrs. White, wife of Eric Edgley White, theatrical manager, died at a private hospital in St. Kilda on January. S. Mrs. White, who was aged 27 years, was formerly Phyllis Amery, and was associated with her sister, Maudie Amery, in dancing acts for J. C. Williamson, Ltd. Her last appearance was in the pantomime, “Robinson Crusoe.” Few actresses have had more interesting careers than Henrietta Cavendish, who appears with Leo Carillo in "Lombardi, Ltd.” Miss Cavendish made her stage beginning in pantomime (“The Forty Thieves,” at the Grand Theatre, Islington), and by hard work at last starred in such productions as “La Poupee,” “His House in Order,” - and “Outward Bound.” She appeared In many London successes with Charles Hawtrey and Sir Charles Wyndham. After spending all the money ghe earned from “Chu Chin Chow” and his other theatrical ventures, Oscar Asche, the heavy-weight Australian actor, has decided to earn a living as a novelist. His first effort is entitled “The Joss Sticks of Chung,” Chung being a modern pirate who seizes ships and throws the passengers overboard. “What a talkie this story would make,” comments Hannen Swatter, the famed “Daily Express” critic.

Nat Madison, son of Maurice Moscovitch, has changed his name to Noel Madison. He is appearing in the talkies in Hollywood. Fearing ruin by the operation of Arbitratioi? Court awards and severe taxation, Frank Nell, the actormanager, who has been leasing the King’s Theatre, Melbourne, from J. C. Williamson, Ltd., has decided to leave Australia. He intends to take a small company of Australians with whom he has been associated for many years in the production of farce to South Africa.

“The Bachelor Father,” a cheerful comedy, was saved from immediate withdrawal from the London Strand Theatre recently by the actors and stage hands forming a commonwealth to carry it on. Louis Goodrich, the actor, who was in Auckland with Margaret Bannerman, told an interviewer: “Not only have we played to increased business since the public was first told about our adventure, hut during the past few days some sympathisers and believers in the attractiveness of the play have furnished us with the necessary financial hacking to keep us going. You may have heard, too, that the author, cabling from New York, has agreed to waive his fees. And the lessee of the theatre has reduced his rent.”