"CHARLEY'S AUNT."

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20790, 25 February 1933, Page 5

"CHARLEY'S AUNT."

COMEDY AT RADIANT HALL. "Charley's Aunt," produced by the Marjorie Alexander Committee's company in a id of the Nurse Maude Sick and Distress Fund and the Marjorie Alexander Fund, will conclude a very successful season at the Radiant Hall to night. "Charley's Aunt" is a pla7 the success of which depends on the ability of the person in the title role, and here the "company is fortunate in that it has an artist of the calibre of Mr Bernard Beeby for tho part. Mr Beeby, while extracting all the humour from it, succeeds also in making it a Sound foundation for the whole of the comedy. A heavy role is allotted to Mr Alan Brown, as Jack Chesney, but as is to be expected, he acquits himself admirably. Mr Brown is always thoroughly at home on the. boards, and as the devout college lover, never at a loss to extricate himself from a Bcemingly hopeless predicament, ho 13 admirably cast. Equally good is Mr Harold Shaw, as his friend, Charley Wyckhsm. Tho part of Kitty Verdon is played charmingly by Mrs Guy Cotterill, who adds ono more success to her already long list. As Amy Spettigue, Miss Pcssy Hollander is also happily cast, and her singing in the third act is an enjoyable interlude. Miss Agnes Richardson, as Donna Tjuclr D'Alvadorez, and Miss Mavis Ritchie, as Ella Delahay, invest their acting with grace. As Sir Francis Chesney, Mr George Worthington impresses favourably, as also does Mr Cyril Collins as Mr Spettigue. Mr Claudo Daviea adds to bia laurels by his clcvor work a3 Brassett, tho butler.