"FRESH FIELDS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1936, Page 8

"FRESH FIELDS."

NEW ZEALAND INTEREST

Saturday will mark the local pr®™'Jof the much-discussed comedy Fields," for a J. C. Williamson comp headed by the famous Xew Zeala < actress Ethel Morrison, who has considerable acclaim overseas, and brilliant Taihape girl Elaine Hamill. J- - will be Miss Hamill's initial appearance in Auckland and if her reception in lingtou is any criterion slic should ' IIC with a most enthusiastic welcome nei■ • "Fresh Fields" was written .by \ a _ renowned young actor-d'imatist lv Xovello, and lias been hailed as oue o the most successful cYucdics Of _ the ? decade. On the Lonilm stage it is «> , to have caused tlie greatest stir 6ince A Coward's "Fallen Angels," and its " re • plot, shorn of all the usual puzzling c ■plications, is sure to appeal to the tas of Auckland audiences. , .^ e j The story concerns the struggles ot two daughters of an impoverished "U !to keep the ancestral home going-by taK s in paying guests and carrying on a £ olu of the "answers to correspondents tyP ' Guests arrive from Australia with ® , money than breeding and then' the cl of aristocratic and democratic ments begins. With the two t a '® D rp j players already mentioned are jp Harvey Adams, Campbell Copelin, i t ,„ Towers, Lloyd Lamble. Arthur La R > Phyllis Baker. Xorman Shepherd, Con • Martyn and Enid Hollins. Other P'»£ to be staged by tlie company during w brief Auckland season are "The Shi? s Hour," "As Husbands Go" and Must Fall."