LOVELY FAY COMPTON.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 21

LOVELY FAY COMPTON.

••• There is great interest in*the-foAbr coming tour of New Zealand-by Miss Fay Compton and her English Company of notable stage .folk:r>Messrs.1 J. >.C. Williamson are presenting the;fambus London actress at Auckland on February 5, and Her first appearance in the Dominion will be in Laurence Hpusman's "Victoria Regina," in which-she portrays England's beloved Queen iha ■ series of fascinating cameos. The. play is produced with full attention to,;detail, and every piece of furniture, every gown worn, every setting is.completely, authentic. The magnificent sceiies range from Kensington Palace, where-in 1837 the girl Victoria1 is aroused from sleep to learn -of her accession; to Windsor Castle two years * later when -Victoria .proposes • to- the handsome young Prince Albert;-to inU- . mate domestic scenes in the Prince Consort's dressing-room; Buckingharn. Palace; a garden tent at Balmoral Castle; and back to '• Buckingham Palace. "Victoria Regina" ; include* siich famous London ;■ personalities^ as Bruno.Barnabe, Stafford Hilliard, -^nn Cqidrington, Peter Dearing (producer), Michael Wilding, Jack McNaugh^on, Mary■ Charles,' Guy -LeSli* Victor,.Hayley Bell, etc. .The Welling, tpn dates are March s'.to 19.' The con> pany's repertoire' .will also' iriblude :tha amusing comedy," "George ■ and ' Margaret," by Gerald Savory,'the-actor rSon :of Grace-Lane, an old--London"" actress. It 'is a; sophisticated comedy^of !odd domestic, complications;* \ • -S:i,, ..-; .