CIVIC THEATRE REOPENS NEXT THURSDAY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19942, 31 May 1930, Page 8

CIVIC THEATRE REOPENS NEXT THURSDAY.

"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

The capacity season which the Civic onJoyed at Easter with that popular talking comedy, "Three Live Ghosts," was interrupted by the theatre being required for other purposes, with the result that the season will be continued as from Thursday next. June 6th, commencing at 7.45 p.m. it is not on exaggeration to say that no fiim has been as popular as "Three Live Ghosts, and there is hardly a person who is not acquainted with the story, even if they have not seen and heard the picture. Beryl Uercer, as the inimitable Mrs Gubbins, the garrulous Cockney washer-woman, is the greatest char-acter-actor upon- the stage or screen. This is not a matter of individual opinion, but is the expression of official opinion from the English critics where Beryl Mercer has been for so many years. Sbe is to English stage stars who went to America to enter the talkie field. Charles MacNaughton, as Jimmle Gubbm* is another Englieb actor. A Cockney by birth, he make» the part of the Cockney soldier live. Montgomery takes the part of the AmeriMin who leaves his country suddenly aod enlists in tha British Army. Claude Alister is •'Spoofy." and that seems enough to say. for the very word brings to mind this biimi table actor as "Algy" in Bulldog Drummond," and now in the part of the English lord who has lost his memory. The . te . a ,™ work of this quartet, to say nothing of the others, makes the greatest comedy ever seen on the stage or. screen. The supporting programme is an excellent one, comprising a Paramount Sound News and a Metro-Goldwyn playlet, entitled "Oupy." This has been spoken well of by exhibitors in New Zealand who saw a orivate screening recently. It is the premier© release for New Zealand. In addition there will be another creation of that great artist, Walt. Disney, the cartoonist who made Mickey Mouse and The Skeleton Dance." The cartoon for the Civic is entitled "Hell's Bells. I The new organist, Mr Percy Burraston, will make hia appearance on Thursday next, when he will contribute the overture If I Were King, 1 * by Adolph Adam, and Whero My Caravan Has Rested."