FILM AND STAGE

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 224, 9 June 1923, Page 16

FILM AND STAGE

(Continued from page 17.) “The Lie,” the play- that created so marked an impression in Sydney and Melbourne, and which is by Harry Arthur Jones, the author of “Thg Silver King„” “The Hypocrites,” and many other famous plays, lias been chosen by the J. C. Williamson directors as the second production of the Emelie Polini season at the Grand Opera House. _Mr. Jones is a pastmaster as a playwright, and “The Lie” is as notable for its excellent dramatic construction as for its strength and ■ intensity. There is a strong vein of comedy, and more than a hint of satire.

The two concluding plays of the J. C. Williamson Emelie Polini season will be “The Flaw.” and “French Leave.” “The Flaw” has for authors Miss Polini and Doris Egerton Jongs. Ln Sydney it proved a genuine success, and drew big houses.

In “The Lip”, Mr. Frank Harvey will be seen in a Frank Harvey part, that of Gerald Forster, a role that is said to fit this popular actor like the proverbial glove.

Ngw acts appearing at Fullers’ on Monday evening: The McKinnon Boys, a pair of Scotch comedians who have had a very successful run in the! Southern centres, especially m Dunedin, where the folks are said to be good judges of Scottish comedy. Thorne is a violinst who knows _ what is required by vaudev lie audiences and can play it to their liking. Violet Elliott is a bright comedienne, and a daughter of Maud, Fanning, who was a great favourite here some twenty years ago. Bilton and Mac do a comedy act that has made good both in Australia and the southern centres of New Zealand, and one of the most successful of Fullers’ English importations.

For novelty, cleverness and style as acrobats the Two Meurs, now on the Fuller circuit, would bfi hard to beat. The whole conception of their act is original, and although they do many things Sydney has seen before, they do it in a new way. A man speaks on the ’phone with another man balancing on his knee in an extraordinary position. He lies on the floor face downwards reading a paper, and his partner comes and balances his entire weight on his feet all these feats are performed with ease by these two equilibrists, whose only worry appears to be that the creases many disappear from their trousers. They dress in grey suits lika any man in the street, showing that tights and such accessories are not always indispensable. The Two Meurs are to appear at His Majesty’s shortly.