Frank Harvey Scores Success

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 26

Frank Harvey Scores Success

Growing Interest in His Play “Last Enemy”

After a doubtful start Frank Harvey’s play “The Last Enemy” is gaining in popularity in London and looks as though it will develop into a commercial success.

Among other things the Americans are taking an interest in it and the play will shortly be produced in New York. J. J. Shubert, a

member of the biggest American theatrical firm, who is in London, said that he has taken options on this play and on Ivor Novello’s “Symphony in Two Flats.” Tom Walls, w h o presents

Frank Harvey “T he Last Enemy,” said recently: “It has been running for four weeks and the loss is already about £3,000. But the receipts have risen from £2OO a week to more than £BOO. The play will certainly take more than £I,OOO this week.” Frank Harvey was for many years a most popular leading man in Australia and New Zealand. Since going to England he has appeared in several London successes. He last appeared in New Zealand in “Seventh Heaven” and “The Skin Game.”

Next- month will see the famous Edith Taliaferro in Australia. Miss Taliaferro was the originator, both in New York and London, of the title role of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.”