NEW PLAYS ON BROADWAY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 12915, 9 December 1939, Page 6

NEW PLAYS ON BROADWAY

Ne ' v Yor!i is "“'-ins ils so plays and the first one t n :: noti re U -See My cully perfect skit on one 0( York’s prominent “glamour a boys.” Tommy MandviiL. who , y ' made history for years there bv 7 iug crazy things which consist have put him in spots so tight **! a lawyer is necessary lwehm\i o J! of the year to pul! him out. ** The play made no secret.of th* identity of its central character, ar l though the presentation was not al together kind, his ability to j aus) | at a joke on himself was evidenced !:y the "invincible Tommy." who in the front row and applauded up roatlcusly throughout. Another comedy which has $»• Broadway • holding its sides i s now Uari-Kaul'manu play “Tits Man Who Came to Dinner.’' j There ( unregenerate authors arc !no respecters of persons or of tits limitations of the hum an diaphragm and in a story built round a man wh o came to dinner and stayed for weeks they have devised some most ingemj ous situations, in which, among the j mistreated souls, are UVo who bear Jan undoubted resemblance to Harpo I Marx and Noel Coward. I Gertrude Lawrence is back again in New York, giving a most delicate performance in the “Skylark." George White has presented another “Scandals” with a hit time, “Are. You Havin’ Any Fun?" (which should sweep Australia as it has America). The piece de resistance of all the new productions, stars Helen Hayes and Phillip Merrivale in “Ladies and Gentlemen.” The setting, a court room, and the subject, trial for murder, prove ! Helen Hayes’s acting ability to the I utmost. k