"OUTWARD BOUND."

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 19

"OUTWARD BOUND."

A brief resume of "Outward Bound," the moßt remarkable play which is to be produced at the Grand Opera Home for five nights, 'commencing on Tuesday next, by Joseph Cunningham's new English company, starring Miss Zillah Bateman, under the direction of Messrs. Dick White and Eric Edgley, is as follows:—A ship is off from the land; to the travellers there is just the illimitable sea. Mrs. ClievedenBanks is quite at home. Tells a friend named Prior that she is going out to her husband in India. Prior, knowing that that same husband has been dead for years, wonders whither he is bound. He d°?f,. not know; neither does the Rev. Willuiu Duke. Mrs. s Midgett does not know. The conduct of the other passengers only adds tp the general wonderment Two lovers, Ann and Henry, are m all sorts of doubt as to where they are going. Mr. Lingley, M.P., comes in; he is a self-made city magnate. "Do you know where this ship is going?'' Prior asks him.' J±e does not. Prior goes out on deck and staggers in to make this great announcement. The ship carries no.lights. There is no captain, no officers, no crewno engine-room, no navigatory appliances! We're all dead, I tell you, dead, dead." wnat most the passengers desire to knowis where they are going—heaven or hell. its whatever you make it. yourself", says "Scrubby," the steward. The mys-tery-ship floats aimlessly on to its destination, when the "examiner" comes on board The management, particularly desire that "Outward Bound" is notiniarined to be a doleful affair. There is rich atTheßristo.. 1116 RhM are n™ W