GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 4

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

, Those who saw Mr. Guy Bates Post in his first offering in this city, "The Masquerader," realised something of this distinguished actor's' greatness, but in "The Bad Man," an even greater surprise waits those.who have not seen the piece. The plot deals with a triangular love affair, and the complexities of a mortgage. Tonight will be the final performance of "The Bad Man," which will be followed by a thrilling and fascinating drama entitled 'The Green Goddess." The Sydney "Morning Herald* critic describes it as "a play of serious adventure, set in a framework of Oriental magnificence and unparalleled . luxury." The central figure is the Rajah of Rukh, the ruler of a picturesque territory in the Himalayas, and into the domain of this wily and suave rajah there descends a damaged aeroplane containing three Britishers, and,' because three of nis brothers have been executed that-day for committing murder, the rajah dcides to put into practice the old law of "an oy« for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." "The' Green Goddess" is , from the pen of the late William Archer, the then doyen of London critics, who wrote it as an answer to a challenge on the part of certain playwrights who had suffered from his criticism. As the rajah, Guy Bates Post is said to give a magnificent character study, and other members of the company who have particularly important 1 roles are Miss Eileen Sparks and Messrs. Ashton Jarryj Leslie victor, Winnington Barnes, and Gerald Pring.