THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19719, 9 September 1929, Page 6

THEATRE ROYAL.

COMEDY SEASON. "PIGS." This evening and to-morrow «nd Wednesday, with a matinee on .Wednesday, the. J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management will present to playgoers of New Zealand tor the first time the three-act play by' Annie Morrison and Patterson McNutt, which has been running continuously in New York for the past two years, and which proved very popular ia Australia. The story of /'figs 13 ingenious, and the dialogue is brilliantly clever. The humour is deliciously droll and refreshingly clean and wholesome, and present .company jiibest, Simple 'in wrastructloh, "Pigs" is cleverly developed. Its theme is the endeavour of two youthful sweethearts to Becure a loan of 250 dollars with which to buy 250 porcine beauties to form the nucleus of future prosperity. Their brilliant characterisations in "Pigs" were responsible for the engagement by the J. O. Williamson, Ltd., management of Mr Alan Bunce and Miss- Ruth Nugent. The parts they will appear in this evening they created in the American production of "Pigs," and It was their brilliant-artistry that materially assisted to make one of the outstanding successes in_ tne United States, where no fewer than fourteen companies are at - present playing it. Also that sterling actor, Mr George Henry Trader was in the original New York representation; his Interpretation of the role of Thomas Atkins being included amongst his best characterisations. The c&s* *', 5 ° in " eludes Gertrude Augarde, iola Fortesque, Reginald Newson, Frank H. Fox, Sidney Stirling, Phmbe Martyn, lies. Donaghey, and Bonnie Atholwood. The present company has proved itself one of the ®ost Bonular that has ever appeared in the Dominion, and special interest haS jf been centred- In the production of Pig*. because it was in this play a fnrore »n Sydney and Melbourne. Tne season will definitely close on Wednesday night.