STAGE AND SCREEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 18

STAGE AND SCREEN

Gladys Potrio in Franco. Miss Gladys Petrie, the Invercargill • coloratura'soprano, may make a tour of New Zealand and Australia early in 1934, writes the London correspondent of "The • Post." MisEl Petrie returned .to Paris last month after a vacation in England, Belgium, and Normandy. M., J. Berthet, in the "Revue. Illustree 81-mensuelle," of Paris, commends.the singing of.the New Zealander, and says the audiences of the Salons St. Didies.'and Hoche and the Cercle Muaicale de Paris, have "appreciated the very beautiful quality of her voice and her supple and learned muaricality." ' Her programmes "were composed of works by Handel, Mozart, Faure, Chausson, Dupare, etc., in the ringing of which Mies Petrie showed the possession of pure quality and a. perfect technique. Before going to Prance, Miss Petrie Studied at the Melbourne University • Conservatorium, where ehe gained her diploma with first-class honours. .She sings.in French, German, and Italian. Recently, during High Mass at Ezy-sur-Eure, the' congregation was treated to music and chants under the baton of M. Bas and the Cesar Franck "Panis Angelius," sung by Miss Petrie with artistry and talent, Marshall. v Screen followers o£ Herbert Marshall ara in for their greatest treat when they witness his performance in "The SohtaiM Man," a sensational drama of life among Continental crooks, written-, by Bella atld Samuel Spewack. "Floating" a camera by a delicate series of. counter-weights .was the means-of obtaining unusual screen effects for this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production. When this camera was mounted in the cabin of an aeroplane, every dip and plunge of the ship Was recorded as' the floating device kept the camera on a constant axis with the earth. In addition to Marshall's performance, a notable supporting cast contributes much to the, picture. Mary Boland, Lionel A twill, May itobson, Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Forbes,' Lucille Gleason, and Robert McWade. , "S.O.S. Iceberg." Fifteen thousand miles, or more to film a- motion picture! Tins ■ is l the record "location trip" established by Universal's expedition into Arctic Greenland to filpi the drama "S.O.S. Iceberg." No one in the world had ever worked in the movies; •with iceberg 9 and very little was known of their-behaviour. One of the greatest menaces jto navigation, they look peaceful and gentle enough, but an iceberg is.liable to turn over at any moment, to break up in a thousand pieces, creating high waves back-lashing tides, and eddies. Stunt flying over the jagged mountains of Greenland by Major Ernst Udet, German aviation ace, provides many of the thrills in "S.O.S. Iceberg." "Don Quixote." Feodor Chaliapin, who makes his first talkie appearance in "Don Quixote," keeps all his money in gold in Paris. He lost estates worth £100,000 in Russia, and is running no further risks. Chaliapin's house in the Vladimir district of Moscow was taken from him in 1927 by order of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Republic. United .Artists will relciisc "Don Quixote."

"Pirate Treasure." • Lucille Lund, the "All-American co-ed," who came to Universal in September as a result of the "College Humour" maga•zine college contest, is going up the ladder rapidly. First-she was featured iv "Saturday's Millions"; then she was given a part in "Horse Play," with Slim Summerville and Andy Devine; and now she has been selected-as leading lady for Richard Talniadge in "Pirate Treasure," the. third Universal seVidl' foY the'curien£ year. Edward Arnold and Mabel Mardon have been added-to the cast-o£ "Madame Spy," which will go into- production shortly at Universal' City.. .Fay .Wray has the role originally intended for Gloria Stuart. Miss Stuart's work in "Beloved" made it impossible for her to accept this role of a modern spy for a European Government. The other lead is plnycd by Nils Asther. "Gay* Divorce" a Popular Choice. .Claude. AHister, making, his first appearance on the London stage for nine yeara, was in the London presentation last month of "Gay Divorce,", at the Palace Theatre. Mr. Allister has been making a name for himself in American ' films. Fred Astaire, the male member of the Astaire duo of dancers' (his sister Atlulc married into the English peerage), was also prominent, with Claire Luc.e, a very attractive brown-eyed American blonde. They are the originals Df the American production of the same piece, as are also Eric Blore, an English actor who has'been playing' in New York for the last seven yeara, and Erik Rhodes, who was making his first appearance in England as the Italian "professional corespondent." "Havoc" was the play in which Claude Alfoter was seen nine years ago in London. Clifford Heatberly had the part'of the butler in "Gay Divorce," Joan Gardner had a soubrette part, and Olive Blakeney had a part after her own heart as a wise-cracking widow. "Gay Divorce" is scheduled for Australian production shortly, the. firm o£ Messrs. J. C. Williamson having imported Billy Milton, Iris. Kirkwhite, Madge Aubrey, and Edward Royce/ juni Dreiser Approves. • ■ When Theodore Dreiser likes the film version of one of his novels, he makes no secret of it. The author, who is known as the stormy petrel of American letters, and who attempted to restrain^ Paramount from releasing its picturisation of An American Tragedy" a few years ago, recently placed his seal of approval on the company's production of "Jennie Gerhardt;" "It is a very excellent improvisation upon my theme," Dreiser said after witnessing a serial.preview of the film in ,New York. "It is very moving and very well cast. The spirit of the book is there,, and I have no objection whatever to the film." By Candlelight. Elisfsa Landi, who will be remembered in "The Masquerader" and "The Sign of the Cross," has been Signed by Universal for the leading role in the Continental comedy, "By Candlelight." Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, and Esther Ralston also have important roles in this sophisticated comedy which presents many interesting sidelights on the lives of philandering Europeans of noble birth in Vicuna and Monte Carlo.

Lucky "Anthony." It wad Anthony Armstrong who wrote the fascinating murder mystery len Minute Alibi," which has been doing ex-cellent-business at Home and in Pans. Under the pseudonym-"Mr. A.A.. he also writes, for "Punch." His mystery play has'been the subject of' investigation by students of the psychology of crime, and it has been translated into several languages, the audience actually sees the murder, but so cleverly is the alibi worked with the aid of a chiming clock that tiie development of the play confounds even the most astute mind. Another Anthony who has made himself famous in England is Anthony Kimmins, whose comedy drama "While Parents Sleep" has been a big success. For a naval officer to step into fame as a playwright with his first play is no mean tribute, and not only has he written a stage success, but he ha** also delved into the film scenario world.ami varied what promises. to,be, a most mter- ' esting- stage career by acting in some ot his own adaptations. Dodie Smith authoress of "Autumn Crocus," who writes under the name of "L. C. Anthony," must also be numbered among the other "Anthony playright winners. Carter the Great. After three tours around We .world, Carter the Great, magician and illusionist has gained all the opportunities he enuired to elaborate his arts. Thus- he comes back to New Zealand, opening at Auckland on December 7, after some^six years' absence in the Far East with a grip full of new spectacular tricks modernised from Indian fakirs' ideas and vitalised by to own magnetic skill. Carter carries an enormous amount of . paraphernalia, which is necessary for the presentation of his spectacular illusions, and the numbei of assistants employed in manipulation of the intricate mechanism constitute an average company. . "Night Flight." Another great multi-star cast picture, "Night Flight," under the direction of Clarence Brown, presents John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery, and Myrna 1 Loy. This Metr6-Goldwyn-Maycr production is a vivid tale of the air mail in South America, with John Barrymore as the manager of an air line; Clark Cable and Kobert Montgomery as pilots, who brave dangerous storms; and Helen Hayes and.Myrna Loy as women who wait at home; The vivid realism of "Night Flight is guaranteed ,by the fact that the author, Antonoine de Saint-Exupeiy, was a flyer "over the very line he writes about, and that the director, Clarence Brown, is the mest adept flyer in the film colony. "The Bowery." Chuck Connors, Steve Broilie, John L. Sullivan, Carrie Nation, and even little Swipes the newspaper boy—all of them famous characters of New York's "liveliest mile on the face of the globe"—relive their eventful lives again iii "The Bowery," the twentieth century picture attraction to be released by United Artists. Wallace Beery portrays Chuck Connors, George Raft is Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, little Jackie Cooper is Swipes, and George Walsh is John L. Sullivan. Fay Wray and Pert JKelton have the principal feminine roles in the colourful and hilarious panorama of the wicked eighties and gay nineties. A New Priestley Comedy. J. B. Priestley liaß written a new comedy entitled "Laburnum Grove," which was to be presented at a provincial theatre on November 13, prior to London presentation. As the title suggests, the scenes are laid in a suburban house. Cedric -.Hardwicke, who was playing in the London production "The Late Christopher Bean" (Emlyn Williams's adaptation of Rene Fauchois's brilliant comedy "Prenez Garde. a la Peinture") was to produce, ■and Edmund Gwenn, making his return to the stage after a long spell of film work, was to play the chief role. James Harcourt, who played Jesse Oakroyd in the tour of Priestley's '"Good Companions," was also in the cast, along with Mary Jerrold, Ethel Coleridge, and Margaret Gunn.

"Roman Scandals." ( "Roman Scandals" is more than halffinished. Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, and the hundred Goldivyn girls have completed , the spectacular slave market scene under the supervision of Busby Berkeley. The picture's biggest number is built around Miss Etting's song, "No More Love." Grace Poggi, whose rhumba in "The Kid from Spain" last year made her famous overnight, does a dance to delight an august Roman Senate. The dancing girls, augmented by thirty new recruits, are now rehearsing what is to be known as "The Beauty Scene," in which the captive slave girls are bathed, shampooed, massaged, anointed, manicured, and otherwise made attractive for the Emperor. The set is built entirely of glass. Another •of ( Dubin and Warren's songs will set the i rhythm for the number. Twelve cameras i and a fifty-piece orchestra under Alfred i Newman's "direction moved in for the ( actual shooting of the scene. New Stories. ; Three notable pieces of literary material 1 for screen production have been acquired < by Paramount Pictures to be added to its 1934 new.season photoplays. "Alien Coin," the Sidney Howard stage play in which Katherinc. Cornell starred last season, ! produced by the actress and Guthrie McClintic, has been purchased and will be ' put into early-production. Clarence Bud- j dington Kelland's newest serial, "Thirty ] Day Princess," which will shortly emerge i in novel form, has been added to the list i of Paramount pictures. "The Whipping," an unproduced ' play by. Eulalie Spenco based on a novel •by Roy Flannagan, is the third: of the trio. . • ■ ■■ "Bombay Mail.", . • "Bombay Mail," a forthcoming Uuivcr- : sal attraction, starring Edmund Lowe, has an exceptional plot, intertwining the lives, motives, and desires of a dozen people who travel on the fast express from Calcutta to Bombay. The '. author ,of "Bombay Mail,'! L. G. Blbchman,'has drawn his characters from, real life. He is a, former newspaperman who lias made hia home for years in Tokio, Hong Kong, and Calcutta, and lias travelled extensively through the Far East. A master of mystery stories,1 he' has built a dual mystery with a deft ■ hand. ;In addition to Edmund Lowe, the cast includes. Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Ralph Forbes, Hedda Hopper, and many others. Successful New Zealand Musician. Air. Hamilton Dickson, who has recently arrived from Sydney to take over Mr. George Ellwood's teaching connection (while Mr. Ellwood'is on an extended holiday in England) is a pupil of Mr. Roland Foster, the principal singing teacher at the, New South Wales State Conservatorum of Music, and Mr. Alfred Hill, the distinguished composer-conductor. Mr. Dickson has wide experience in all branches' of music, having been 'cellist with the Sydney Professional and New South Wales State Conservatorhim Orchestras; soloist 2FC and 2BL radio broadcasting stations, and > solo baritone St. Jude's Choir, Sydney, and appointed by Mr. Foster as assistant adjudicator in the vocal sections at the Sydney Eisteddfod. Besides being an executant-of outstanding ability, Mr. Dickson has met with much success as a composer. Included in his works are solos for violoncello, pianoforte, songs, and two operettas, both of. which have been performed. Mr. Dickson, who conducted the combined 40 celli when they played his "Arietta," at Mr. Ellwood's students' recital in the Concert Chamber on Monday; last, has also acted in this capacity in Australia. Paul Robeson. One of the most important pictures of the new season's releases will be "The Emperor Jones," Eugene O'Neill's almost classic exposition of vanity and terror. It was first produced as a stage play by the Princetown Players in New York in 1920, and was subsequently transmuted into a turbulent opera with Lawrence Tibbett in the title role at the Metropolitan Opera House. Now it has reached the third state of rarefication —the screen. Paul Robeson, distinguished athlete, actor,' and singer, appears in the title role as Brutus Jones, the Pullman porter, who became a king. Robeson was, ast year, the ruling sensation of the Loudon theatrical season, where he appeared as Othello. United Artists are releasing the picture. The New Hodge Play. Dr. Merton Hodge (Wellington) has evidently written a stage success in his "Wind and the Rain." Old boys of King's College and Otago University, as well as medical friends all over New Zealand, will be interested to know that the play is a brilliant one, in three acts and six scenes, and is built up around a young medical student who leaves his widowed mother in Chelsea to go to Edinburgh for his degree. His childhood friend is a very modern girl; the student is a serious-minded fellow, who has thoughts of making the girl his wife. In the North the student finds life without the' feminine touch can be dull and difficult until he meets a young student from New Zealand—a sculptress who inspires him in his work and lecomes his mistress. The other students sharing his lodgings find it necessary to have their good.times with the opposite sex, and the picture of student life out of hours is extremely well drawn by Dr. Hodge. After success, the sculptress returns to New Zealand to her colonial lover, and the medical student is free to marry his Chelsea sweetheart, both recognising the Scottish period as having been nothing more than a mere interlude. Robert Douglas has been playing the Charles Tritton of Dr. Hodge's conception, and Pamela Willins his Jill, Virile Anne, the New Zealander, has been most capably delineated by Celia Johnson. Of her a Manchester critic wrote that she played a simple love scene with dignity, gravity, and tenderness, restoring to the stage an art that has been in abeyance. Further, that in no young actress ia there more promise than in Miss Johnson, whose effortless variety of lovely movement or in subtle cadence of words led the critic to conclude "one would go far to see her Juliet." Athene Seyler made a charming mother to the student, Tritton. Tritton's room-mates were confidently drawn and acted, particularly the fatuous and irresistible Gilbert, for. whom the study of medicine and of such frivolity as Edinburgh offers looks like being a career instead of preparation for life. Dr. Hodge, according to the London correspondent of "The Post," seems to have achieved the improbable by interesting his audience in a straightforward love story, and an undergraduate love story at that, without resorting to youth pulling its elders to pieces.

"Samararig." "Samarang," the United Artists release, has caused much comment at .recent screenings in America, because of its undersea battles between a man and a shark, and a tiger shark and a, giant octopus, has other battles of nature. Though the animals arc ■ smaller, the struggle is just as fierce. "Samarang," of'course, is not a nature- picture, - but tells the story of the difficulties that beset the wooing of beautiful Sai-yu by her handsome lover, Ahmarig. . . ' ' .: ■ . ; Wide Appeal. ... The' chief characteristic of Fox production policy for 1934 is; the determination on the part of • studio executives to produce U greater number of pictures with international, appeal. As evidence of this I may mention that Mr. C.B. Cochran, the famous London theatre lriagnate and' producer, has been engaged to sift the whole European and British field' for successful plays and players of an international character.' Mr. Cochran- is recognised as having;'an uncanny knack of picking "successes." . . '■■'.- Comedy. In production at Sound City is the famous Viennese musical comedy entitled "Regimental/Lady." It is being re-titled "His Excellency Mr,.. Cupid," and is being produced on the most lavish scale with a great many of the original sets that made this Viennese laugh-maker the Continental success for '1033. ' ' ' ' " •' " ' Czarina's^Lace. ■', , Lace i from-! a ;priceless! go.wn that was worn,in.l9l4, by the late; Czarina Alexandra of RussiaJ will be worn by Marlene Dietrich in her next Paramount picture, "Her Regiment of. Lovers," which • portrays the life.of .Catherine II. r Josef yon St'ernberg will again'direct the star.

"Alice in Wonderland." After conducting a world-wide contest to find a typical "Alice" to play the title role in "Alice in AVonderland," Paramount has selected an enormous cast of favourites for the many other characters in this classic. Supporting Charlotte Henry, who plays "Alice,-" are Kichard Arlen as the "Cheshire Cat," Eosco Ates as "Fish," Gary Cooper as "White Knight," Jack Duffy as "Leg of Mutton," Xebn Errol as "Uncle Gilbert," Louise Fazenda as "White Queen," W. C. Fields as "Humpty Dumpty," "Skeets" Gallagher as "White Rabbit," Raymond Hatton as "Mouse," Edward Everett Horton as "Mad Hatter," Ro'sco Karhs as "Tweedledum," "Lucien Littlefield as "Father William's Son," Mac Marsh as "Sheep," Polly Moran as "Dodo Bird," Jack Oakie as "Tweedledee," Edna May Oliver as "Red Queen," May Robson as "Queen of Hearts," Charlie Ruggles as "March' Hare," Ford Sterling as "White King," Alison Skipworth as "The Duchess," Ned. Sparkes as "Caterpillar," Baby Le Roy.as "Deuce of Hearts." "The Invisible Man." The strangest character ever created by the screen makes its debut in Universal's "Invisible Man," which will be released in New • Zealand shortly. Its unseen star is a scientist who has succeeded in conquering light and shadow to make himself invisible. Filmed in the utmost secrecy with-"No Visitors" signs attached to locked doors, "The Invisible Man," during its production, created more intriguing conjectures than any photoplay yet made in Hollywood. The problem was how to photograph invisibility. CJaude ' Rains, London and New York stage actor, makes his debut in the leading role of "The Invisible Man," with Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, aud Dudley Digges. "Cplpnel Blood." Among . the interesting features of the Sound City's colossal production "Colonel Blood" is the engagement of the famous Dolmetsch family to play on the old-time English musical instruments.; Another character famous in history, Mr. Pepys, appears in the production. On a typical Sunday evening in 1670 the redoubtable Colonel paid a visit, to the Pepys to listen to the music. Mr. Pepys very, solemnly played one of his own pieces, "Beauty Retire," with Rudolph Dolmetsch playing a Virginal dating from 1670, and the two other Dolmetsches playing the Viol da Gamba, which has seven strings .arid was used before the violoncello became popular, and the Treble Viol which has six strings. Letter •by Dickens. On thumbing through an eighty-year-old historical volume which he had just purchased, Stephen Roberts, director of Paramount's "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," found a two-page letter written by Carles Dickens to his plumber, Mr. Aldridge. The letter, more than sixty years old, is estimated to be worth more than one hundred dollars. Moustaches Gone. The barber at Universal City has been doiug a land office business the past week. First he was called upon to shave the famous moustaches of both Paul Lukas and John Boles, then he removed a five weeks' growth of hair Boles accumulated for early scenes :of "Beloved," his latest musical picture. This done, he visited the "Counsellor-at-Law," set to shave John Barrymore whose whiskers were allowed to grow several days. • .

"Counsellor-at-Law.'.' Elmer Rice is today regarded as one of the three foremost playwrights in America ■and "Counsellor-at-Law". is conceded to be his best play after a two years' tun on Broadhvay. Universal was fortunate in securing the motion picture rights of this drama, and doubly fortunate when Rice agreed to prepare the screenplay and the continuity, a thing-he has refused to do in the past. , John Barrymore has been cast for the leading' rdle of George Simon, Counscllor-at-Law, and he is supported by an all-star cast' including , Bebe Daniels, Doris, Kenyon.'Onslow Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, and Thelma Todd. Woman.' ..,-.. Dorothy Arzner,' who holds the distinction of ' being the, only feminine ■ director in the business, has replaced George Fitzinaurice" as' the director of Samuel Goldwyn's production of "Nana," starring Aiina Steh, to be released by United Artists:

"Waltzing Matilda:" ■ ' ■ It is gratifying to learo-of-the(sticcef* of "Australian-made talkingI'pictures.* Nevef in the history of .the.moving picture.industry have films equalled; the interest that they have aroused. The latest epic from Australian studios, "Waltzing Matilda," comes to the Majestic Theatre o» Friday.. The outdoor scenery is exceptionally beautiful, and shows some lovelj; stretches of the Australian countryside. "Waltzing Matilda" lias for its theme the wonderful comradeship which exists between the Australians of the, outback, and the characterisations are, all, drawn, from life. It tells the story of two "diggers/ overcome by the depression, who decide to go ori the wallaby track. They eyehtually wind up at a,big sheep station; the. overseer of which is,"Sandy,":an old; Scotch pal, and -a ;friend, of "digger''--days.~;Elenty o£ adventures happen to the: irrespojisibles, played by Joe Valli, Norman French,- Pat Hanna, and a :beautiful daughter;. pi, 'Australia in the person of Dorothy Pat-nham. ■Mr. Symes's station iat Macedony-,:.one' of the show places of Victoria, was used for scenes of "Waltzing Matilda.";'.; The/ supporting programme' will•. /comprise \some notable, featurettes. . ■ ■;• '--':■[/]. Name Painter. .; .X; The hardest-working man :at the Paramount studio, according to Helen Twelvetrees, featured with "Bruce "Cabot and Adrienne Ames in /'Disgraced,", is It. J. Kellar. ' His work is not. particularly; difficult, but it is. everlasting. He is'the man who paints the names on doors. Authors and scenarists may come and go; director* may arrive and depart; and any number of executives may be here today and [there tomorrow, Miss TwelvetreeS: learned, but L. J. Kellar goes on indefinitely.' Just.as often as someone—writer,-musician, sienarist,' director, .executive, or other dignitary —is given a position, his name goes up on the glass door of his office.' Since ma|ny-o£ them are signed for only one. picture, or for a short period, there is a terrific;turnover. .■:... ;' • ■ V j " , Fox Plans. ■. , ' \ ■ - Among Fox pictures for early release will be "Paddy The-Next-Best-Thing" with the Janet Gaypof-Warner Baxter combination which achieved such success.in."Daddy Long Legs." "Berkeley Square," John Balderston's amazing play, featuring Leglie Howard and Heather Angela and directed by Frank 'Lloyd'df . "Cavalcade" fame, and "Music in, the Air," a remarkable play that remained'for twelve months on' Broadway recently, and is even now the reigning sensation of London theatrical circles. "Music in the Air" has just completed a lengthy and highly successful season at the Theatre Royal, Sydney.. The dramatic side of the year's programmes will be taken care of by such productions as "A Tale of Two Cities," the; immortal classic to be made entirely in-England. "The World Moves On," written by Reginald Berkeley, who adapted "Cavalcade" for the screen,, will be" produced on the same huge scale. ■ . ■ ,--■' ' ■ Dame Clara Butt's Programmes. ■ : Dame Clara Butt is' featuring^ at h« opening concert in Melbourne on; December 2. "The Company, of. Heaven." '.-■. Other numbers in her repertoire include v"Abide' With Me," "There Is No Death/; Handel's Largo, and other popular aucceesesi. with grand organ accompaniment. The ' contralto is associated with David Siaserman, 'cellist, Raymond' Lambert, pianist,.and Philip Cohen, violinist. Dama Clara is,se daughter of a captain of a schooner whose wife was wont to accompany him'on. many of his voyages. On one voyage: they, found it necessary to head'for the nearestport, and Dama Clara was born at Southwick. ,a village by the harbour of Shoreham. Ha^po'Marx. " " ." ' T [~ ' Harpo Marx is going to Russia to appear in the Russian Art Theatre in Moscow, now that he has completed work -in Duck Soup," the latest Marx Brothers' picture for Paramount. Harpo will not travel through Germany. ,The trip 'is .the- result of an invitation received' from the'drreetor of the Moscow theatre. Harpp-will appear without salary. He.is anxious to ..see Russia, he says, and wants to try.^jlaying in pantomime before, audiences which-do not understand English. ', A Barrie Play. * The production of a play by' -J. "M. Barrie is an event of real-importance in the theatrical life of the ;city, attdtlie presentation of "Alice Sit By the; Fire at the Concert Chamber on .Wednesday: next is awaited with no little: interest. Rehearsals indicate the smoothness and polish which theatregoers;have to associate with the names of Mr. W. S. Wauchop and the Wellington Repertory Theatre. This will be Mr. Wauchop « last production prior to his departure tor Europe, where he hopes to study the latest developments in the theatre. In jm farewell production Mr. Wauchop ing several new performers in addition to Miss Hazel Wells and Mr. T. V. Aneon. who are both favourites locally. . The newcomers include Mrs. Vera Horton, Misses Imelda Meadows, Edna Purdie (in a delightful character B tudy), Belle Campbell, and Phyllis Batten, . and Messrs , Wm. Simm and Alan Howard. For this product on Miss Constance Morice. has charge of the wardrobe, and some charmmg creat ons of the year 1005 are to.be worn by the ladies of the company. Special sfeneT and furnishings have also been Prepared. The Season is limited to.four nights. "Three Little Pigs." "Three Little Pigs," a Walt Disney Silly Symphony in technicolour, which has made a bic hit in America, was recently showing simultaneously in twenty-five theatres in New York City following a record rua of five weeks in the Rosy Theatre in that city The cartoon is described as a genuine ' masterpiece and more of a sensational success than any recent dramatu production. The indications are that thy creator of these clever cartoons, Mr. Walt Disney, has a deal of something. beside* good fortune.