AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 18

AMUSEMENTS.

+ '•THE BELLE OF NEW YORK" r,non comic oi'bra. rfl ,' p . n , 0 f 3D cL'Hii': operas. '"Tbo Belle of \(,w*York" is 'b» m»:.t popular. Mary years its %vrre on rvrryborfy « lipa. an nvi-n t.-> fix" thesf! posse?? a flavour that is irrssUtiMr." I'nr now. tinder th« auspices of ,T C. Willtsm-on. I.id.. tliis old s.icmss oriorina » r-vival at thr Theatre Koyal. Tho ( : \Villiani<..iti firm aro to be applauded aas.l of their roura;p in staging the pro-.l.j-tion vhii-li has every merit and no fault. The V.r.MOn of the play ha< been mote"' ..-d and broil si. t completely up to date. Out 'he mo-t interesting features of the pro--4 iction if.' the fact that T.rslie Holland was to play his old role of lehaV"d Bronson. siiduey Burchall, as youns t.., rrv F.ron'ort is another player of good Ltu nr4 hero'e style. As Violet Gray, liiimola llanpen is .-harimos and restrained. Tl.e rol« of the pr"tty .Salvation Army lasn i*. orv requiring demure and dainty treaty merit pn d this and more arp privpn to it l.v Vi,s Hansen. Jim Gerald has a joou of New York-; *U. b, repeatrd until cvenm? ami, judging by The iT.thilsiiisl ic audienee last niirht. it should a u »;»rdorfu!}y P'^son.