ON THE BOARDS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16

ON THE BOARDS

! i j News from the Stage s

A six night’s season of “Goat’s Train,” or “The Limited Shall Not Run To-day,” is being presented by the Auckland University students. • • » Rehearsals are well under way for "Loyalties,” the Galsworthj’ show which the Wellington Repertory Theatre will present on July 5. The production Is in the capable hands of Mr. W. S. Wauchop, and the principal roles will be taken by Misses Hazel Wells, Marjorie Oakes, and Effie Brice, and Messrs. Norman Byrne, 11. A. Bannister, R. Welton Hogg, Vryn Evans, V. Lloyd, E. S. Baldwin, D. Stark, and R. E. Pope. •• • ♦ “The Circle,” by Somerset Maugham, has been chosen for the Auckland Little Theatre Society’s next production, commencing July 14. The players will include Colonel Brittain, Messrs. J. D, Swan, G. Fryer-Raisher, and Harold Haines, Mrs. 0. Phillips, and Miss Maisie Free. Mr. Gaston Mervale is producer.

Shayle Gardner, the New Zealand actor, is playing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in “Wings Over Europe,” a play that is set entirely in No. 10 Downing Street, and has no women in the cast.

:, “The Sybil Thorndike Co. ended its r Adelaide season with ‘Madame Plays :- Nap,’ a shameless but funny imitation i of ’Sans Gene,’ ” says “The Bulletin.” s “The same Napoleon as poverty-strick-en Parisian and as Emperor, the same kind-hearted, free-tongued woman who : befriends him, and at curtain-fall confounds him by the reminder of it. The details are different, and reflect the feminine authorship: business w’ith feminine underwear, plot to ruin Madame’s ‘reputation’ and open attempts by other women to steal her husband. Sybil Thorndike, scoring heavily off the other cats of the Court, is singularly like our own ‘Sweet Nell’ and gets every ounce of reckless fun out : of the machine-made situations. Lewis Casson as Napoleon recalls ,Julius Knight, but Robert Brough even more.” * fl Jack Buchanan, star of stage and screen, has just finished a run of nearly two years at the head of his own revue, “Stand Up and Sing.” <1 That the fascinating Madge Elliott and the debonair Cyril Ritebard have a host of friends and admirers in New Zealand is proved by the many letters of congratulation received at the head office in the Dominion of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. (New Zealand), at the announcement made recently that they will head the brilliant, combination coming to take part in the presentation of the attractive musical comedy, “Blue Roses,” which will be produced with full stage accessories. That there will be a warm welcome for the performers mentioned, together with their fellow-members of the company, goes without saying, and the presentations of this beautiful and fastmoving musical comedy will prove a i real delight and “a joy for ever.”