THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 7

THEATRE ROYAL.

"THE GHOST TRAIN." The weird mystery play, ''The Ghost Train," described as one of the most thrilling productions over staged, will be presented in New Zealand by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in conjunction with E. J. Carroll, the first performance being at tho Theatro Roval on Tuesday, September 27th. This comedy-drama gives thrills aplenty, but with tho dramatic situations many amusing episodes are introduced, bo that the tension is relieved. StraDgo are the happenings at the lonely wayside railway station, tho climax being reached when with glare of light, hiss of escaping steam, and thundering rattle, the ghost train rushes past. It is a play of laughter as well as thrills. Tho cast is-headed by (he noted stage and screen star, Miss Betty Ross-Clarko (from London and New York). Tho producer is Mr Hugh Wright (London), who also plays tho stationmaster who creates tho atmosphere for the strange happenings that follow. There are ether well-known London artists appearing in important roles, including Miss Laura Smithson, who plays tho comedy part of an elderly spinster who travels with her parrot, and Mr Basil Radford, "the silly ass who stopped the express to pick up his hat." Mr Mayne Lynton, an actor of high repute, appears as Richard Winthrop, and Miss Mary Rigby as his wife Elsie. Others in the cast are Miss Joan Bailey (Peggy Murdoch, the newly-wedded wife), Leslie Palmer (Herbert- Price, brother of tJie mystery woman), Reginald Roberts (Jackson), and Edgar "Warwick (John Stirling). Box plans are at The Bristol, j