MARIE NEY IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 5

MARIE NEY IN LONDON

Alarie Ney, the New Zealander, has been getting some wonderful notices from the London critics and is now regarded as one of England’s finest actresses. She is playing in “People Like Us,” Frank Vosper’s play which is said to be ■.the story of the famous Bywaters-Thomp-son murder case. Of her interpretation of the part of Ethel, Alan Parsons says :— . “That fine young actress, Alarie Ney, ■flays Ethel, and succeeds wonderfully in interpreting her strange complexities, especially her passion for the theatrical, which was so intense as to make her actually believe in things she knew had no existence in fact, and led her to write those queer, imaginative and often beautiful letters to her lover. “But Aliss Ney is by nature too spiritual, too refined for this part, and somehow misses the streak of vulgarity which must have been deeply ingrained in the woman.” ... Aliss Ney has also been playing in Sir Nigel Playfair’s revival of “Beau Austin” at the Lyric. Hammersmith. It was last played in 1890 with Tree as Beau. ~ A critic wrote of the acting:— Bertram Wallis makes a very handsome Beau, while Alarie Ney, ns his unhappy mistress, Dorothy Musgrave. gives a performance of real beauty; her long and difficult soliloquy in the first net was exquisitely spoken. And she. can carry through a big dramatic scene without overacting.”