Victoria On The Boards

Radio Record, 1 April 1938, Page 39

Victoria On The Boards

A.W.

K.

(Stratford)

-Permit me to

state, I find the criticism of the Fay Compton "Victoria Regina’"’.Company in

a recent issue under the pseudonym, "Sari," unfair. The term "mummer," as applied to actor or actress to-day, is a Vulgarism, and the whole article is unworthy of a critic who takes his profession seriously. I am, however, pleased to find the general opinion of those 'who have attended the performances accords with my own. ‘Neither play nor acting are without faults, both are yet worthy of high standard and deserve the patronage accorded them. I agree an orchestr,; should be provided, but do not. find prices at all excessive, considering costs in New Zealand to-day. They are below those of T.ondon theatres, (Continued on page 56.)

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{Continued from page 39.} ELILG. (Auckland). "Sari’s" article on the production of "Victoria Regina" had the temerity to tell only part of the truth, I for one am tired of Seeing good plays spoiled by the incompetent acting of supporting casts. But I do not agree with the critic in this: I think it unfair to draw comparisons between stage and screen, They are entirely different. "Muses" (Auckland). Your excellent. paper has been the only one so far to say what many people are thinking ubout the acting of the Fay Compton Company. If visiting companies are billed as the same ag appeared in Loudon then all I can say is that the London stage has suffered a big slump since I last saw a Drury Lane show. Answers To Correspondents Trickster, W. Robinson and Others: A misprint occurred in R.E.Y.’s article "The Tricky of Easy Street." The actual cash return of the fraud was £4/4/-, not. £9/4/-.