BRIGHT COMEDY.
J. C. WILLIAMSON'S SHOW. This evening and on Monday and Tuesday nights the J. C. Williamson Comedy and Dramatic Company, headed by Ethel Morrison and Elaine Haniill, will appear in Rachel Crothers' comedy-drama, "As Husbands Go," which scored a big success on Thursday night and again attracted large audiences last evening. The scene showing the two enemies, Campbell Copelin and Harvey Adams, becoming more and more intimate as the level in the whisky bottle between them diminishes, is claimed to be one of the funniest created in comedy. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons the company will present the thriller, "Night Must Fall," which ran for two years in London. The theme of "Night Must Fall" concerns a murder, but Emlyn Williams, instead of using the conventional method, has set himself to disclose the psychology of a murderer whose identity becomes apparent to the audience soon after the curtain has risen. Suspense is said tn be faultlessly preserved as the play moves to a crisis of action and the interest is held by the tension of the plot and the skill with which the complexities of mind and motive in its central character are unravelled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 10
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