Will They Take It Now?
Admittedly the incidence of . war causes a vast change in outlook, but it is a moot point whether a certain play, " Young England," which opened at Lon- | don’s Holborn Empire a few | weeks ago, will stir the heart of young England any more now than it did at its first performance. Considered the juciest joke of 1934, this patriotic play about | Rover Scouts and Girl Guides ran to packed houses for six months and caused a near-riot at every performance. Written as a perfectly serious piece it provoked howls of mirth from audiences who booed the villain, yelled advice to the cast and hurled fruit and other objects on the stage. When the hero (a handsome Rover Scout) was making some super-patriotic speech to his recruits a concentrated barrage of confetti, streamers, coins, cigarette stubs and vegetables showered down on the stage. The heroine (a beautiful Guide-mistress) never had need to blow her whistleas soon as she placed it to her lips a piercing blast of a hundred assorted whistles came from the auditorium. Garbed in his "fighting clothes" -a tweed dressing-gown with deep purple girdle, 88-year-old author Walter Reynolds, J.P., is now working on a melodrama entitled "Innocence." Its heroine is a young and virtuous girl who falls into the evil clutches of a young aristocrat. "It has a passionate love interest-but no sex at all," claimed the author, gravely adding that the plot includes a mortgage on the heroine’s home. i aeeneetneteanne
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 41
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249Will They Take It Now? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 41
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