"FAIR AND WARMER."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18147, 9 August 1924, Page 14

"FAIR AND WARMER."

NELLIE BRAMLEY COMPANY ON TUESDAY. "Mi6s Nellie Bramley and the strong oast supporting her scored another distinct success at His Majesty's Theatre (3ays the Auckland "Herald") in Avery Hdpwood's spailkling farcical comedy, 'Fair and Warmer.' Miss Brunley was delightfully natural as Blanny Wheeler, and her acting with Arthur Connell, who takes- ' the part of Billy Bartlett, the banker, who was "too damned good' to his wile, waa one of the beat. thing's seen lor many a long day. The scene in v.-Siich the pair 'hit the high epota' had the audience convulsed with merriment. The play is.a r;ot of humour from-start to finish. Sylvia McNair made the most of the character of the discontented wife, while George Hewelett did convincing wock as Jack Wheeler, the man who keeps hsa wife wondering.' Ethel Bashford, ? 8 t. T ?!? e ,' was all that °° U W he desired. John -. Galway, as Philip ' Evans, portrayed tne_ part; of Lamb's..Fr;end to .the entire satisfaction* .pf .the huge audience. Guy Hastings -«id William McGowan, as HaniPete, from the Manhattan Storage Company, were a host in themselves. As on American comedy, it was true to form. SS?» W won ***«*. ia . entirely insoat The Bristol, and the opening nieht is T l ., "p f ° r . n j? hta an d will be i followed by "Peg o' My Heart."