THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 6

THEATRE ROYAL.

"THE GHOST -TRAIN."

Oil Tuesday night "The Ghost Train" will be presented at the Theatre Royal. The play is described as a most ingeniously constructed drama, and it should attain in New Zealand'thc same measure of.success that it has reached elsewhere,. ."The Ghost Train" has ,a sterling cast, has sensation after sensation, has sparkling Comedy, and a denouement "that must not be divulged. Hiss Betty Ross-Clarke comes with long English exyfe'rfence, dud not,a' little 'film' fame, and heads the well-selected cast. She presents a' finished characterisation in the* role of the t "mad" woman;-. theil there 1 is- Mr Hugh jWriglit, stationmaster at- Eal.sVale, where the action' o£ the play takes, place. Mr Wright 'is also "producer of tile play. ' Comedy is in |the hands of Mr Basil Radford, in a "silly iass" rolp, and Miss Jjaura Sipithson,, another ;actress new to Christchurch;' Roger Barry lias a good role, and' Joan Bailey appears as His wife, newly-'wedtie'd;• other well-known names are those of Edgar 'Warwick. Reginald ' Roberts. Leslie Gordon, Robert Steele, and ' Mayne Lynton. One of the spectacles of "The ; Ghost 'Train" is the passing of the ghostly express -through the station wherein most the , action takes .place. ' The box plans are at IThe Bristol.