"MR WHAT'S-HIS-NAME."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 15

"MR WHAT'S-HIS-NAME."

This evening at the Theatre Royal the J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., management will present the brilliant London actor-manager, Mr Percy Hutchison, and his English company of comedy artists in the famous French corned; success, "Mr What's-His-Name," which ran for ten Weeks in Sydney and Melbourne, and which is still being played by no fewer than sis different companies in England. "Mr What's His-Name" was adapted from the French by Mr Seymour Hicks, and it is said that the character of Adolphe Noblet might have been specially created and written for Mr Hutchison, so well does -he fit this extremely amusing character. Mr Hicks has treated the play in his crisp style, with brevity in most of the sayings, and with much to amuse in the rapid and brilliantly clever exchanges between the characters. The plot of "Mr What's-His-Name" is quaintly original, dealing as it does with a man who is supposed to have been killed in a railway accident, but who in reality loses his memory. Hiß wife, after mourning him for two years, marries again and has children, and her husband also marries and his wife presents him with two sets of twins. When he again meets his first wife and regains his memory, highly amusing ■ complications arise, and it is said the fun is fast and furious rieht up to the final fall of the curtain. Mr Hutchison has scored one of his greatest successes in the role of Adolphe Noblet, and other* who appeared successfully in the Sydney production and who will appear hero in to-night's performance are:—Miss Stella Francis, Miss Frances Dillon, Miss Mary Brackley, Miss Joan Rogers, Miss Violet Loy, also Mr R. Steuart West. Mr E. Rayson Ooasena, and Mr Townsend Whitling. The dresses and furnishings ate features of the production, of which, only two performances can be staged. On Monday "The Joker" will "be played for two nights, and will conelude the company's very snccessful season, j