WHAT HONOUR?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 January 1940, Page 3

WHAT HONOUR?

WILL THEY TAKE IT NOW? Admittedly tlie incidence ol" war causes a vast change in outlook, but it is a moot point whether a certain play, "Young England," which opened at. London's Holborn Empire a few weeks ago, will stir the heart ol young Eiigliind any more now than it did at its Jirst performance. Considered the juiciest joke of 4, this patriotic play about Rover Scouts and Girl Guides ran to packed houses for six months and caused a nearriot at every performance. Written as a perfectly serious piece, it provoked howls of mirth from audiences who booed I lit- villain, yelled advice to the'cast and hurled Crust and other objects on Hie slag-'. Wlr.'n b-'-:."o (a handsome llov- •••• ,s.;»: hi) was making superpa irioiic speech to his reciuiis n (Continued foot next column).

concentrated barrage of confetti, streamers, coins, cigarette stubs and vegetables showered down on the stage. The heroine (a beautiful Guide mistress) never had need to blow her whistle —as soon as she placed iL to her lips a picreing blast )f. a hundred assorted whistles came from the auditorium. Garbed in his "fighting clothes'" —a tweed dressing gown with deep purple girdle, 88 year old author Walter Reynolds, J. P., is now working on a melodrama entitled "Innocence." lis heroine is a young and virtuous gill who falts into the evil el niches of a young aristocrat. "It has a passionate love interest-; —but no s:\v at aH,"' c laimrcf t,he aiilho" gravely nddirg that the plht * includes a mortgage on the heroine'* home.—N.Z. Listener.