FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1058, 23 August 1930, Page 24

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE j September.—“ Tutankhamen.” Amateur Operatic Society. Coming.—Leon Gordon: "Murder on | the Second Floor.” and other plays. Edgley and Dawe Co. in “Hold Everything” and “Follow Through.” Humphrey Bishop Co. CONCERT CHAMBER Now Playing: St. Andrew’s Society, “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,” “A Well Remembered Voice.” :

Zillah Bateman, here some years ago, is appearing in a new thriller, “The Silent Flyer,” in London suburban theatres. Clayton Greene, who toured New Zealand with “The Wrecker,” is playing with the Manchester Repertory Theatre. Drinkwater’s play, “Bird in Hand,” played here by the Little Theatre Society, has celebrated its 500th performance on Broadway, New York. Con Moreni, formerly on the Fuller circuit, with his brother, Harry, and Dolly Varni, were on the bill at Balhant Theatre, London, last month. Violet Elliott was playing the same house. Guy Bates Post, when be produced “The Climax” in Los Angeles, included in his cast of players Mabel Gibson, well-known Sydney musical comedy actress. She toured New Zealand with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and “The Vagabond King.” The death is reported from Hollywood, California, of Jauette Gilmour, American actress. Miss Gilmour will be remembered as the vivacious comedienne of the stage production of “Rio Rita,” which was seen here last year at St. James Theatre. Death was due to pneumonia. R. Barrett Leimard, whose death was reported from England last year, is very much alive. At last advice he was appearing in a revue, “Reply to the Talkies,” in the English provinces. Thelma Burness was in the company. They both toured New Zealand in “Frasquita.”

Vera Pearce, playing in "Artists and Models,” in New York, is described by a critic as a “supposed comedienne.” A critic says of the show: “It is by far the most disgraceful unveiling seen in our festal parlours for some time. Its humour is tainted with the aroma of the gutter, and the show is a bore and a waste of time.”

Such is the continued success of “Little Accident” in Sydney that no definite date has yet been fixed for the attraction that is to follow—- “ Coquette.” In this Edith Taliaferro will have the first full dramatic opportunity she has been afforded since coming to Australia. Factors in the large audiences to which “Little Accident” is playing are the controversy the theme has excited, the accomplished acting by Gus Bluett in the dominating role, and the entertainment provided by the play itself.

Ernst Stern, the famous German theatre artist who designed the Viennese scenes in “Bitter Sweet,” will be responsible for the scenery in “Evergreen,” the musical play by Benn Levy, with lyrics by Laurence Hart and music by Richard Rodgers, which C. B. Cochran will produce in the autumn. Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale will return to London to play the chief parts, and Leon Morton, the French comedian who first appeared with Delysia in the intimate revues at the Ambassadors Theatre, is a member of the company, which also includes Albert Burdon, a comedian well known in the provinces, Joyce Barbour and Jean Cadell.

London is to have another permanent repertory theatre, in addition to •the one which is being planned for the West-End. Alec M. Rea, of the St. Martin’s Theatre, has secured the pretty little Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage for a term of years, and early in September he will, in association with A. R. Whatmore, for six years director of the Hull Repertory Theatre, establish a similar repertory body. A permanent company or players will be engaged, and Mr. Whatmore is bringing from Hull his complete administrative organisation. The plays will be changed every two weeks, and the prices are to be “popular”— 2s 4d to 5s fid. From time to time, as occasion arises, the managers will invite well-known artists to appear with the company in special parts.