“FRESH FIELDS”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 3

“FRESH FIELDS”

Nearing' End -of Season Two further performances ol Ivor Novello's diverting comedy, "Fresh Fields,’ were presented to delighted audiences at the Opera House yesterday atteruoou and evening. The comedy is based on I lie impact of a rather crude Australian family in the quiet, shabby-genteel existence ot two impecunious sisters, Lady Lillian Bedworthy and Lady Mary Crabbe, who are brilliantly played by two talented New Zealand actresses. Misses blame Hamill and Ethel Morrison, ‘‘Fresh Fields” will be played finally this evening and to-morrow evening. “Night Must Fall.” The brilliant company now in season at the Grand Opera House, headed by two distinguished New Zealand artists m Ethel Morrjson and Elaine Hamill, will illustrate their versatility in Emlyn Williams's powerful .Iratna "Night Must Full,” which is to initiate a week's season with a matinee performance on Saturday next at 2.15. Of this remarkable play, which is still drawing crowded houses in Loudon, the critic of the "Morn-

ing Post” wrote:—"Mr. Emlyn Williams in ‘Night Must Fall’ has placed himself beyond Ihe front rank <>! playwrights of the day. He has produced a play which for the ingenuity of its plot, for its unique construction, tor its deliueatipn of human passions, for its tensely powerful dramatic seelies, ami for its cleverly-contrived comedy, is distinctly ahead of all the thrillers of our time and lil Io rank with the most powerful drnmas of the past century.” “Night Must rail opens with an orig.nai promgue in which a judge silting in criminal appeal lulls what has happened, lie upholds the conviction of a man who has murdered two women.- With dramatic glee the playwright then presents the story of the crimes. “Night Must Fall” will serve to introduce to New Zealanders Mr. Lloyd Lamble, who will bo seen in the part of Dan the "Bell-hop,” the role played by the author in London. A popular reappearance will be Mr. Campbell Copelm in the part of Hubert Laurie. Harvey Adams, Norman Shepherd, Katie Towers, Phyllis Baker, and Enid Hollins, nil of whom made such a good impression in “Fresh Fields,” are said to be eminently suited to their respective roles, and a production quite up to London standard is promised.