THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

"THE BELLE OF NEW YORK." "The New Moon" will be produced at :tbo Theatre Royal for the last time- to-night, after a very successful season. ' -Tp-morrow afternoon, at 2.30, tlic J.. C. Williamson, Ltd.; management will present' their '\Tfew Moon" Company, of one hundred artists, in the up-to-date 1930 representation of everybody's favourite comic opera, "The Bello of Kew York," which is everywhere proving tihe moat successful musical play staged in recent years. To the older genoration of playgoers the production of "The Bello" will be doubly welcome, because it will revive cherished memories and it "will give them another opportunity to listen to the glorious melodies of this charming musical play and to enjoy the eccentricities pf the Polite Lunatic and Icabod Bronstfn. To the younger generation it will be appreciated in the light of a revelation, • because "The Belle" hna good claims, musically and otherwise, to bp superior to any musical _play fteged duringth© past twenty years. The fact that the present company's performance of "Th 6 Belle of New York" js said to excel any previous production of it has also added to the interest i» to-mor-row night*3 revival, and it will . probably be welcomed by a record audience. Lilt® the music in the works of Gilbert and -Sullivan, the melodies of "The Belle of New York" aio as fresh and as popular to-day as when they were first heard thirty yeara ago.. The--ballets,; without which the opera would not be complete, are .laid to be triumphs ofartistic, arrangement, and they are executed by a; ballet of '-exceptionally brilliant Australian dancers. Great 1 interest - will 'be cant red in Miss Romola Hansen's performance of the title role, as critics elsewhere have aoclfvimcd her as the best yet seen in the part. As the dashing young son of a millionaire, Harry Bronson. Mr Sidney BurChall, should be seen to exceptional advantage, iind the music allotted his character ■will give his excellent baritone voice oppor-. tunitieo to distinguish itself. " There is a specially selected cast, including Leslie Holland,- ■ Sidney Burchall, Romola Hansen, Herbert Browne, and Jim' Gerald.