Promising Future is Predicted for Wellingtonian Now in Sydney

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

Promising Future is Predicted for Wellingtonian Now in Sydney

—far. Australasia lias ine'lv international re-U^avSg-O 1 ! pute, Haddon Chambers. born at Enniore. Is it to have another in Mrs. Alon lit nes, a native of ’Wellington (N.Z.), and for the past IS years resident in Sydney. Mr. Chambers's long list of successes include “The Tyranny of Tears/’ ‘'Captain Swift,” “The Idler, “John o’ Dreams,” “Passers By,” “The Fatal Card,” “In the Days of the Dukes” and "The Saving Grace,” writes F.H., in a Sydney paper. Mrs. Hynes is a tensely intellectual woman, very young-looking for her 40 years. She has long been a keen student of the stage. Of late years she has taken to writing sketches and plays, and in the hope of placing her product —through the sage and screen—she shortly leaves for America. The work in which she has greatest faith is a drama in three acts, with prologue and epilogue.

This the writer has been privileged to read. Naturally, Mrs. Hynes is averse, tor the present, to the theme being made public. It is permissible, however, to sav that it is spiritual in character; never before touched with regard to the stage; and of deep, universal appeal Singularly able is her treatment of it in plan and dialogue—in both respects. everything being technically correct, and worthy of any experienced craftsman. There is a happy diversity in the characterisation, w ith a flow of humour ever surrounding the serious, inspiring motive in the central idea. The stage first, with the screen to follow, is her wish with regard to it. Subject to her finding a responsive producer, prepared to give the play the presentation It requires, it is safe to predict that it should prove a production of illimitable pos abilities. Among those who have already expressed the highest admiration for Mrs. Hynes's dramatic gifts is Mr. Leon Gordon. In the bid for fame she is making —with the prospect of this, in turn being shed on Australasia— she wili certainly have with her, in her visit to America, the best wishes of ail.