COMIC OPERA SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 12

COMIC OPERA SEASON.

GLADYS MONCRIEFF COMPANY

Revivals of four lovely comic operas will be the pleasant lot of New Zealand I theatre-goers next month, for Australia's "Queen of Song,'* Gladys Moncrieff, is ' returning at the head of a J. C. William- - son company in "The Merry Widow," "The Maid of the Mountains," "A South- > ern Maid" and" Katja, the Dancer." Her performances in Australia during , a lengthy season of revival have been alive with warmth and clarity, for Miss i Moncrieff acts with charm as well as i singing gloriously. More than once she [ has held up the show; each entrance and , each exit was a triumph. She literallv ran away with the roles of Dolores in "A Southern Maid." Teresa in "The Maid of the Mountains," and Sonia in "The Merry I Widow," if reports are correct. Beauti- . tally dressed and produced, each opera has been a revelation even to old stagers in Australia who remember other Somas and , other Teresas, and doubtless New Zealand i audiences will e e e in the revivals all the . md glamour and richness of music and dia- : '?« ue - .. "Glad." as everyone calls the Australian singer, is anticipating with keen pleasure her return to New Zealand. '■rrrW,. her wl " Dp * noted coterie of ! Williamson neople. including Oeil K°l!n , j way, Lois Green. Arthur Clark" L"sW .Crane (from Auckland). R-n? Maxweil. jD-,n Nicol. John Fraser. Colin Crane, etc. i he . . 6ea son commences on May 26 in Auckland.