THEATRE ROYAL

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 13

THEATRE ROYAL

"FAIR AND WARMER." "IVir ant! Warner,' the dciiglitin! cosapuy by Avery Hopwood, is atirxcti-M" crowds to the Theatre Royal. It tells o5 tbo troubles of a c*njple ideally mated to iha outward eye, but who narowly eacspo aaatrimcaial shipwreck tie the very outcome of that placid harmony. The wife, perhaps no more foolish than the average wenmn, creates for herself a grievance inasmuch as her husband (jives her no occasion for alarm cr anxiety. Certainly the husband possessed a perfectioa of oocduct • which might reasonably cause a woman to become suspicion, but- it ia hard to imajtr.o that any wifn of experience wou.:d entertain a genuine be'.ief in her hutband's "icpfT.blennss" and ai the same time an ardent desiro that he ah-ouhl, to phow his manhood. become something of a rake. Tho husDand in the !;i?t act was undoubtedly ft character calculated to try the patience of anybody. He was a complex of ■ >?pti?c3, s very moratorium of a roan, but oven at his awful best ho hardly deserved the fate his exasperated and somewhat giddy wif? intended, that of separation. •'Fair ar.ci Warmer'' will be repeated tonight.

"Peg O' My Heart." eho 3wept into iho hearts of her audience in the beginning xnd right through tho piay. says 0115 critic, referring to Miss Nellie Braiuley's chunK'torisiitio'.i of thr> lovable heroine in "Peg o' My Heart," which goes tip ct the Theatre lU>yil on Monday, quaintneso of Peg, the Irish girl, in tho particularly English setting of her relatives, w reported to be bcwitchinglv suggested by this clever actress, critics being unanimous in sayi-n; that it revoais Mi.'a Bramley in one of her moat adorably feminine io!cs. Aj.i altogether charming play, Peg is UlO pivot around which events revolve, and 3he epins it to effect. Imagine a ni-->ud, eo..!=civui.ive Englieh family iuvadad by a vivacious young Irish colleen, who had been used to travelling in a cart with her father, nnd one can never guess the turmoil tli3t ensued. Mis-; Bramlev ii said to bo inimitable as Pep. Naturalness is ono of her principal charms, and she endears herself more thuti ever to licr admirers in this captivating impcrsons.tion. Local playg.crs will doubtless attend in largo numbers to oee th:3 charming actress in such an appealing role. It is a treat,_ too (says a northern writer), to hear her eing in tho second act, when inapircd by her lover, Jerry (Mr George llcwlolt).