LONG LONDON RUN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 29, 4 February 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

LONG LONDON RUN.

NEW PLAY FOR AUSTRALIA. Melbourne is the first city in Australia or New Zealand to see Loudon's longestrun play ''While Parents Sleep," which was first staged at the Royalty Theatre on January 19, 1932, and, after some months, was transferred to the larger capacity of the Garrick, where it is still playing to packed houses. Every character in the play is a "type," and for each of these J. C.* Williamson's have selected ail artist specially to fit the part. The cast of the first production in Australia, which was to have been given at "the King's Theatre last Saturday, included Harvey Adams as Colonel Hammond, Mona Barlee as Lady Cattering, Agnes Doyle, Noel Boyd, John Wood, Kenrick Hudson, Ethel" Saker, and Ivy Parker as Vintcent. The play is produced by Frederick Blackmail, who staged ''Waltzes From Vienna" for J. C. Williamson, Ltd. There are three acts in the comedy, the' action of which moves swiftly. In the success of Anthony Kimmins, who wrote "While Parents Sleep," is contained one of the most striking romances of real life. A naval man without any previous experience of play writing or the stage, he wrote "While Parents Sleep," and one morning awoke to find himself famous and the author of a play that even the critic of "The Scotsman" eulogised. It has now to its credit the longest run of any play in London, having finished its first year, and is still playing to capacity at the Garrick Theatre. It has brought Anthony Kimmins a fortune, and managers are begging liim to write more plays for them. The secret of its success is that while it is "saucy," it is witty and clever, with wonderful comedy and marvellous character types. And, too, it has "atmosphere." By many people it is considered to have similar qualities that made "Spring Cleaning" such a world-wide success.

The Lady: I'm sorry to hear your •wife is so ill, Tom. It's, too bad. Not dangerous, I hope. Old Tom: Thankee, miss. She is too weak to he dangerous. Young Actor: "Never an actor among my people before —always the Bar or medicine, you know. Matter of fact, my family offered me a thousand pounds not to become an actor." "How did you spend the money'/" asked Jinks. Bueie: How can you spend your time doing nothing!" Dolittle: Doing nothing! Do you realise that the work performed by the mere vital processes of the human body every 24 hours amounts to lifting 3400 tons? Doing nothing, indeed! "Want a job, do you?" said the grocer. "Well, I'll take you .on. What's your "Simpson, sir." "All right. Go and unload the chests of tea from,the van over there "and carry them up to the storeroom over the shop; and. while you are up there, bring down three barrels of butter." "Excuse me, sir, I said Simpson, not Samson." Customer I don't quite know what I want, but it must be something quite suitable for a birthday present. Assistant: Well, sir, this store can supply anything from a pin to an aeroplane. "Perhaps you can show me something between the two." Wife: What is meant, John, by the phrase, "carrying coals to Newcastle"? Husband: It is a metaphor, my dear, showing the doing of something that is unnecessary. "I don't exactly understand. Give me an illustration—a familiar one." "Well, if I were to bring you home a book entitled, 'How to Talk,' that would be carrying coals to Newcastle."

SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN. " Some men think they tar* an Inferiority complex, when, as a matter tf fact, they're just inferior. ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. "Our economics, prof, talks to himself does yours?" "Yes, but he doesn't realise it—he thinks we're listening.* y FEMALE GOLD MINE. ' She: I hope your recent marriage has turned out a great success. He: Oh, quite; I've already made tfcrea plays out of my wife's past. RUBBED HER THE WRONG WAY. Maid: I left my last place because I was told to do something I didn't like. Prospective Mistress: EeallyJ "What was that? Maid: Look for another job. PROVIDING FOR MANDY. "I understand you've got your divorce, Mandy. Did you get any alimony from your husband?" "No, Mrs. Jones, but he done give me a first-class reference." WIDENING THE TAXABLE BASE. "Daughter," said her dad, "how doe 3 it come you go out with a different young roan every night?" "Oh," she yawned, "most of my boy friends have had their salaries cut, and they can't afford more than one date a week with me now." MIGHT FORGIVE HER AT THAT. Father: You first met my daughter at the seaside, I believe. She told me ho# she had attracted you. Suitor: Did she really, sir? Why, she told me you'd be furious if you found out she'd winked! NOT WHAT HE MEANT. "I hear you have obtained a job now, John, as temporary postman. Do you like the work?" "Well, squire, it hurts my feet, but the money is useful. Anyway, it's better than walking about." BLIND EYE TO THE TELESCOPE. Conductor: Can't you see the.sign "No Smoking?" Sailor: Sure, mate, ' that's plain enough. But there are so many dippy signs here. Looka there, one says, "Wear Nemo Corsets." So I ain't paying attention to any of them. STOP THAT HACK. Vicar (after the service): My cough' has been dreadfully troublesome to-night, Perkins. Verger (with collection plate):' Well, sir, youVe had a lot of sympathisers. They've put in lozenges instead of sixpences. SHE ATE IT. "In your sermon," said the stout lady to the minister, "yon said that constant" dripping would wear away a Btone?' "Quit© right, it does," replied the minister. "Well, I've eaten it with every meal since, and I've put on more weight than ever." NEW ONE FOR EINSTEIN. Persons living on Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, were awakened at 2 a.m. by tiie explosion of gas fumes in a manhole in front of 55, Rogers Avenue. The manhole was hurled through the plate-glass window of Ralph's barber shop. SOLD. The village carpenter was short of work, so ho called at the week-end cottage of a business man who was resting after one of the most unfortunate dcak of his commercial career. 'T should like the job of makin' the new dog kennel which I understand ye be needin', zur," said the village carpenter. | "How did you come by this information ?" asked "the business man. "Well, zur, I did 'ear as 'ow one 'o they clever chaps in London 'ad sold 'ce a pup." SMART. "This suit I'm wearing," said the young clubman, "is wonderful. It has a story." "i don't see that it's different from anv other," said a fellow clubman. "Then I'll tell voir," said the first "The wool was taken frorn sheep in Australia and brought by ship to England. The cloth was made in Yorkshire and. the suit in Leamington." "What about it?" asked a third member. "Well, doesn't it strike you as wonderful that all thoso people concerned should have lived on something that isn't paid for yet?" came the reply.