A Real "Thriller" for Wellington Audiences

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 14, 13 October 1933, Page 2

A Real "Thriller" for Wellington Audiences

WSLLin GTON is to have its share of thrills shortly, when Mr.: Victor S. Lloyd produces "No. 17," by J..Jefferson Farjeon, the well-known author of numerous "thrillers." "No. 17" has the distinction of being the only play to run for five years in the West End of London, being accommodated in that: time in five different theatres. The play opens in a thick fog outside an unoccupied London house, and the last scene is in a secret chamber inside the house, but during that time much has happened. A corpse has done things no well-brought-up corps? ever does; trains run under the houseanparently from nowhere to some "(estination unknown," an unconscious girl -need it be said that she is beautiful? -dreps through a skylight, and, of course, there are secret doors and so on in plenty. The cast will include many well: known Wellington amateurs, including Marjorie Murray, F. G. Hayes Towns, Norman Hannah and H. A. Painter. The play is to be presented for a season of four nights, starting on Wednesday next, October 18. The proceeds for the first two evenings are to be devoted to the Wellington Free Kindergarten, and to. the support of Miss Greta Stark, sports princess in the National Confidence Carnival shortly to be held in Wellington.