THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 13

THEATRE ROYAL.

"riMILIN' THROUGH.'' ■'scr'. rwac i.!': o I■, ;;:id her lalenlcd company at- ; ' p - r - attendance at I[2 ti'i-'fJ ;> "»l1 !:i-» eve-ninpr, and the larjc - • v. •• • ;•«> *v\th tho {coliDg- thit :, --'d iroiiirl.-.wii;.; quite unique in tho "'• 'lho play itself deair> '' and oicrnai liicrr.c, lj' j : - ' 1 •■■-.■ ■* ;ii' .'Jcmethinp quit<> d::- ::*• .j r;<*k u.jout it, and rsorc ':m- hi' ; t-' i !Jo;.'jo, and for the rc- : •' air* ro,xl rncdol. It opeu- ;• r-: *'•"i« h :t sotting ar.d an ••; '■■:• •'■ * 1 o'inline liiH*. o». the Land o: ' '"' r - :;i "ft- I ':** Bird." and t'-'o r ' • .. :■:•••! rK.-JuT'j or the future lovers ■'' ' ' ;u! ho j'Mion they both so ■ ;: ■ '" '' j I'-iiiott a con- . ,••■--• :•• ;n-. iitiordod her for tho dif.plav of . .. ■■■ : "PINTER. MADAME." Forirni and final gertrude ELLIOTT I'LAV. i- , - v.T4 n-at to the /nil worth '■l t.icrtrudc Klliott, Company, u,nd to if", ir-.un v;o.-jv nt iir> best is lo v/jt-"J'-r.tcr M'ddamc," t'j bo presented fcr iho fr-'b time here to-riiorro-v night. Tho r!ar of the famous actrctn's season J9 f: "" by r.orth r :rti criti'-T. to be the heat of t:;r rcpcrt-oiro. Delia Jiobbia, provides -i, T-irt '-vhich ifir.3 Elliott cuts to thoco di-rri-r.'-ion.-j pkur.e her. It 15 said to contain moro than any of tho other pi-t}.-'; she hy;j brought ou tour; it is vivid, .'»nd oonvir.cin.T. Lisa, tho adored. trid rrvjiled idol of halt the opera houses of Kurope, impossibly romantic, a woman vho dramatiacfj ordinary cxistenoe in a manner of tho* noutb, who movea with an entourage, and ho ir. nuch a child at heart, in dra'An to Afi3a KUiott's liking. And her playing of that part is paid to bo a work of comic geniua, unforgettable. Apart from thia tho play itself is of a brilliant quality. Exploiting tho field of "J.'omance,' it provides Pomo iminensoly ftmusing- situationo, and cheda uracil on the other sido of an old problem—tho artist and her husband. 'There "will bo a- whole host of pcopJo interested in thin lato3t production. William Moliison, aa Gerald, Madamo'a husband, will fb;q nccn in av. eicollont and "understanding study of a man who io no less individual than til who has suffered from being "dolla Jlobbia'o husband," who i 3 "wayward and bad tempered, but nevertheless in lovo with his wife and a good fellow. Ma- gio Mooro will jna-ko a welcome reappearance as Bice, Madame's maid, Baid to be a splendid performance. Miss Liliae Waldegrave will bo seen as Mrs Flora Preflton, a widow, J. B. Eowo as John Fitzgerald, tho young son of tbo two principals in tho play, lan McLean in a capital character stndy of a chef, Athol Foiilo a doctor, and Gertrude Boswell an e** cient secretary. Tlia "bos plans aro at tbo BriatoL