HILARIOUS COMEDY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 4

HILARIOUS COMEDY

“UP IN MABEL’S ROOM.” SERIES OF LAUGHABLE SITUATIONS. "Up in Mabel’s Room,” the presentation of which in the Opera House on Saturday night concluded the Australian Celebrity Company’s Masterton season, provided, with crisp American dialogue, a continuous stream of laughable situations. The audience was not as large as it could have been, but was most appreciative and warm and hearty applause was evident throughout. In essence. "Up in Mabel's Room" dealt with the attempts of a misguided but entirely innocent bridegroom to retrieve evidence of an old and very mild indiscretion. His unhappy and bewildered efforts to clear himself from a tangle involved almost every member of the cast before a happj r solution was reached. Don Nicol, the popular Australian comedian, as the bewildered bridegroom, gains the sympathy of his fellow guests at a house party and arouses the suspicion of his wife, played by Miss Maisie Wallace. In an earlier romance witli an attractive young widow. Mabel Essington. a part taken by Miss Shirley Ann Richards, he had indiscreetly sent her an unhappy choice of present and upon meeting her at the house party he endeavours to retrieve it before his wife learns of it. Much boisterous but good-natured humour follows. Other parts were taken capably by John Fleming. Miss Mary Duncan. Lane Patterson. Miss Alathea Siddons. Phil Smith and Charles Albert.