THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17585, 14 October 1922, Page 16

THEATRE ROYAL.

OTLXSjE BEAMLEY COMPAITY. Tho Nellie Braml&v . Dramatic concluded a very successful season cl Third Degree" la;>t- evening, wheO i s» .**'* audience gav-3 tha actors an enthusiastic 4. - ception. ' 'Lucky Durham'' To-EigM-Wnat is promised as tho best pToduOiicm of tho Nellie Bramley Dramatic Company season, "Lucky Durham," from the jxp tho late Wilson Barrett, will bo present® at tho Theatre Royal to-night. H>® press"* ©ea3on will terminate on Friday night K®, when the company depart for . Si whore they play a month's season. _ ' LKCbj Durham" was responsible for 3000 intending patrons having to bo turned away from Hi® Majesty's Theatre, Auckland!, during the last four nights of a wonderful season. The play is sure to appeal to all theatregoers, the pot being a very strong one. The son of a woman who loved too trustingly and was betray®® by the man who has promised to marry her, John Durham,' by sheer grit and tenacity, finally becomes- a millionaire. Falling - n love with Helen Vallerton, Durham is threatened with exposure by his father, Mountfallen, and makes a clean brelist of t«io circumstanr-es of his birth to Helen's father. Misa Brantley ia said to again prove in tins English production hor versatility and capaj biltiea as cm emotional actress. _ Mr Guy Hastings 13 particularly well suited! in tho cast.