FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 951, 19 April 1930, Page 22

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Coming.—Leon Gordon; "Murder on the Second Floor,” and other plays. Clem Dawe: "Love Lies.” ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing.—Talking pictures. THEATRE INDEFINITE May 17-24.—"A1l Quiet on the Waterfront.” Auckland University Students. CONCERT CHAMBER May 9,10. —" The New Morality,” funds for Obstetric Appeal. Rehearsals are proceeding busily and smoothly for “The New Morality,” to be presented in the Town Hall Concert Chamber in aid of the Obstetric Appeal. The play is being produced by Mrs. H. Bartley-Baxter, the stage and business manager being Sister Peggy Hovey. A special feature is being made of the music which will accompany “The New Morality,” an excellent orchestra under the direction of Mr. Harold Baxter, with Mrs. R. A. Singer as leader, having promised its services. Auckland firms are assisting generously in the mounting of the play and furniture is being made at the Blind Institute.

Charles Lamb has at last been put on the stage and is in the theatre he loved so well. Joan Temple has written a play about him and his sister, which she calls "Charles and Mary,” and which has been received in London with a chorus of praise. "You may remember Charles’s devotion to his folios; his volumes of excerpts from .the Elizabethan dramatists; his and Mary’s “Tales From Shakespeare” and his futile attempts to woo the muses of comedy and tragedy, the one with farce, ‘Mr. H which was hissed at Drury Lane on its first performance, its author sitting near the stage in the pit joining in the demonstration against his brain child as actively as the others in the house,” writes a reviewer. “He tried tragedy W'ith ‘John Woodvil,’ published in 1802, but it never reached the footlights.”

"After the Journey’s End” is the title of two scenes from the "Hall of Valhalla,” written by Mr. E. A. Jeff, as comment on the play “Journey’s End.” They appear in the “National Review.” The Duke of Wellington doubts whether the hard-drinking Captain Stanhope should be admitted to Valhalla, and adds: —-“I am ready to watch and see how he acquits himself. But in my time it was not officers with nerves, officers of the kind that would have run aw’ay but for drink, that their superiors most readily selected for responsible duty or that their men most readily followed—especially in the case of officers who ■were always talking about themselves. And in many of my campaigns they would often have had to do without the drink, for we could not bring it through. And what then?”