Just Too, Too Realistic

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 16

Just Too, Too Realistic

MELBOURNE is chuckling over an incident that took place one'night recently during a performance of the thrilling dramatic play, “Night Must Fall,” now being staged by J. C. Williamson Ltd. at the Comedy Theatre. In the last scene of the drama, Mrs. Branson (Ethel Morrison) becomes hysterical under stress of a fear that she is about to be murdered. The audience was strung to high tension as the actress’s screams penetrated every corner of the theatre and into the night outside. Suddenly there came a loud knocking at a side-door. “What’s going on here?” demanded one of two men brusquely. “What’s the meaning of that woman screaming?” “Don’t you know where you are?” demanded the stage manager, Mr. Norman Shepherd. “This is a theatre. The screaming is in the play.” And the two plainclothes police officers slid into the darkness.

Grace Moore will warble again for the world’s music-lovers and cinemagoers in “Marseillaise,” now re-titled for general release, “Cissy.” She is making this film for Columbia, the studio that launched her on her wave of fan-worship in “One Night of Love,” and “Love Me For Ever,” but she will make her sixth “single” in seven years for M.G.M. This latter production is tentatively entitled “Maytimc.”