"YOUNG WOODLEY."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 10 July 1929, Page 8

"YOUNG WOODLEY."

"Young Woodiey,'' the drama of College life, to be staged by the J. C. Williamson firm at the Theatre Royal for a short season of five nights, commencing on Friday, July 19th, has followed both in Sydney and Melbourne in the theatres that had 'The Patsy,'' and in each case out-succeeded that popular play. "The Patsy" will always be remembered by theatregoers for its human element and in "Young Woodiey" we again are introduced to the charm and appeal of the family interest. In a play that arouses ao much interest as "Young Woodiey," one expects a leading man ot the more sophisticated, blase type, but something fresh is in store for theatregoers, for Lewis Shaw, "Young Woodiey" hirnseK, is far from the blase type. He is a charming, typically English boy of eighteen with frank blue eyes, fair hair, and fresh complexion, and will be an unusual figure for a central part of such a play. A strange coincidence with his role in the play of public school life is the fact that the boy's father actually is headmaster of the Barnsbury Park School in London. George Preston, the bully of the play, is Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin. Other youthful members of the company are Michael Macowan, who is Woodley'a pal at college, and the delightful English actress Natalie Moya, all of whom are making their first appearance here. Miss Moya has been described as one of the most beautiful actresses on the English stage. She was educated in the Ursuline Convent, Waterford, which accounts for her delightful accent. Frank Eoyde, who appears as the College master, ie also the producer of the plav. Others in the cast are Trevor Brogan, Clara. Jenkins, and Guy Hastings. "Young Woodley" was banned by the censor in England, but later he passed it and it is now the most successful play in Londorj, where it has been running for the last twelve months. The story is of tho first and ideal love of a seventeen yeara old schoolboy. It happens to be his master's young wife that he falls in love with, and that sets the ball rolling. The bos plans open on W"dne«daT at The Bristol.