FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 25

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Xovr Playing.—“ Lady Be Good,” Freddie Forbes Musical Comedy Corndoming.—Leon Gordon: “Murder on the Second Floor,” and other plays. Clem Dave: “Love Lies.” ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing.— Talking pictures. THEATRE INDEFINITE May 17-24. —“All Quiet on the Waterfront.” Auckland University Students. CONCERT CHAMBER March (indef.). Alexander Watson recitals. April 2.3, 4 and 5. —“Tile Man They Buried," Little Theatre Society. Ann Seymour, wife of Henry Santrey, who toured New Zealand with her husband and his jazz band, has divorced him. • m * Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson, husband of Gertrude Elliott, recently celebrated his 77th birthday. He is one of the best known figures in the English theatrical world. m * * “Outward Bound,” Sutton Vane’s fine play, will be presented by the Hamilton Little Theatre Society in April. It has been done by the Auckland society with great success. * • * Guy Bates Post, who played “The Green Goddess,” “The Bad Man” and “The Masquerader,” In New Zealand some years ago, Is playing the lastnamed piece in Portland, TJ.S.A. Ann Davis, from U.S.A., is the actual leading lady for William Faversham, but Mary MacGregor has the real lead in “The Prince and the Pauper.” She is the Prince. The story is from Mark Twain.

Jimmy Godden, who toured New Zealand several times with Elsie Prince under the Fuller banner, is

Maying in “Blue Eyes” in London with Winnie Melville and Derek Oldham. Charlton Morton, also here at that time is touring the English provinces in “The Middle Watch.” * * * The interest in Melbourne in the Allan Wilkie Company’s revival of “The School for Scandal” was so great that the King’s Theatre was crowded out an hour before the show was due to commence. Hundreds were turned away, and the management decided to give additional performances. * * * “The people do not want flesh and blood shows,” Sir Benjamin told a Sydney audience in announcing that practically the whole of the organisation of Fuller’s Theatres, Limited, would be devoted to the presentation of talkie films. Sir Benjamin said that it was with infinite regret that he had to bow to public demand for talkie pictures and “canned” music. It appeared to him to be only a temporary fascination, and when the time became opportune he would revert to “flesh atul blood” performances with the utmost pleasure. Nora McManus, the Auckland girl who Is in Sydney, will sail for England on the Otranto with her mother. We lose a sweet singer who could step into a star’s role at a few hours’ notice, and carry the show as though she had been doing it nightly, says a Sydney writer. Here’s to her on the Other Side! So well trained a singer cannot fail to impress theatrical managers there. Her last appearances have been in “Turned Up” and “Follow Through,” in Melbourne: her most successful was as the lead in “The Girl Friend.” in Sydney, in Anne Croft's absence. Oscar Asche produced “The Intimate Revue” at the Duchess Theatre, London, recently. The cast included Dorothy Seacombe. Miss Seacombe is one of the most successfful of the young Australian actresses on the London stage. She will be remembered here for her good work in “Tilly of Bloomsbury” and with Lawrence Grossmith in modern comedies. In London she appeared in important, parts in the musical comedies, “My Son, John.” at the Shaftesbury. “Aloma.” a play woven round the South Seas,” Mercenary Mary” and “Just Married” and “Merry. Merry.”