MUSICAL COMEDIES COMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 15

MUSICAL COMEDIES COMING

HIS MAJESTY’S ON SATURDAY "With Stanley Lupino as part author there is more than the ordinary share of comedy in “Love Lies,” the latest London musical comedy success, which is to be staged by J. C. Williamson. Limited, in conjunction with Messrs. Richard White and Eric Edgley, at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday night next. It is said that the laughter starts almost simultaneously with the rise of the curtain and goes on gathering force until the end cf lh*3 play. Clem Dawe spent quite a lot of time with Stanley Lupino during his visit to London last year and he has moulded his interpretation of the part of Jerry Walker on similar lines to those of Lupino. In Australia it was generally conceded that the popular comedian has never been seen to such advantage as in “Love Lies.” Ip the past we have enjoyed Clem Dawe only in revues, so on Saturday night he will be seen for the first time in a musical comedy. Mr. Bobby Gordon, who will make his first appearance here in “Love Lies,” is a young light comedian. He was Jack Buchanan’s understudy in “Sunny” and played the part in Lon-* don for some considerable time during the former’s illness. Betty Eley, who is to play the role of Valerie in “Love Lies” received numerous letters from returned soldiers in Australia who remembered her as an infinitely dazzling sprite in various concerted efforts to relieve the monotony of their convalescence in hospitals Miss Rita McLean, another London actress who will make her first appearance here in “Love Lies,” commenced an engagement as solo dancer in a successful London musical comedy called “Okay,” but on th© opening night the leading artist, Miss Cecily Courtneidge was suddenly taken ill and Miss McLean took her place and scored such an outstanding success that she retained the role for the rest of the run of this play. Mr. Michael Cole will make his first appearance here in the role of Jack Stanton, in which he achieved a success in Melbourne and Sydney. Playgoers will be glad to welcome back to New Zealand Marie Eaton, Paul Plunkett. Dan Agar. Les. White, Eric Kdgley and Mona Barlee. others in the cast are Compton Coutt.s, John "Wood and Leo. Fowler. The Australian ballet girls in the clever “tap dancing” specialty are said to have created ;v furore in Sydney recently. Only a 1 limited number of performances can be staged of “Love Lies,” and on Saturday, July 12, “So This is Love” will be staged. The box plans for "Love Lies” will be opened on Wednesday morning next. “FACING THE LAW” “Ficing the Law,” William Powell's newest all-talking- picture, has been completed at the Paramount studios. The, lilm story deals with a criminal who attempts to go straight after completing a prison sentence. Marion Shilling has the feminine lead, and Natalie Moorehead, Regis Toomey and Paul Hurst are in the cast.