GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 13

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

The final performance of the celebrated underworld play, "The House of Glass." will be given at the Grand Opera House thk evening. During its season, full appreciation has been shown of the undoubted ability of Mies Muriel Starr and her company. On Monday night and the following two nights "French Leave" will be staged. It is from the pen of Mr. Reginald Berkeley, a young barrister, a member of the Inner Temple and of the New Zealand Bar, who was in the Rifle Brigade—a brigade-major of the Fourth Army. He wrote "French Leave" while invalided behind the lines during the battle of the Somme. When it was played in London "French Leave" went with a roar, for there is a laugh or a smile in almost every line. The enterprising English wile oi a smart brigade-major joins her innocent husband in rest billets as a pretended French actress. Of course, she is irresistibly attractive, and acts like a magnet to the crusty, but (susceptible general, and the still more inflammable staff-captain, while goading the devoted major to fenzy. Three performances onl^wiU be given of "French Leave," and on Thursday, the last night of the season. Miss Muriel Starr will presnt as a special farewell performance "Within the Law," the play which created such a sensation when originally presented by Miss Starr. The bos plans are open at The Bristol.