EMELIE POLINI SEASON

Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 4

EMELIE POLINI SEASON

* MY LADY’S DEESS.’

The box plans for the Emelie Polini season of ten nights will be opened at Teh Bristol Piano Company’s on Tuesday next at 9 a.m. To be seen here at His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday next and three following nights, under the J. C. Williamson direction, is Miss Eineiic Polini in Edward Knoblocks’ dramatic masterpiece, I My Lady’s Dress,’ a brilliant example of stage literature in three acts and nine powerful scenes. A prominent northern critic writes of this remarkable play thus i “Hero is a play with a motif as modem as the jazz, ami it is well done by all concerned. Miss Polini gives striking evidence of her marked versatility in the half-dozen roles she so tellingly brans, and through each one senses the native charm of the artist. The disparity between the sunny Dutch girl and heavy-footed gloomy Anna of Siberia is as wide as the Poles, yet in both Miss Polini got into the skin of the characters, so to speak, leaving indelible impressions of two entirely differ- - ent women. Nor was Mr Frank "Harvey ever at fault. He bad equally as severe a task, with the same demand for protean agility, and came through with flying colors. His Italian Gioann, Russian Ivan, and Cockney Jack wore clear cut vignettes In character. Mr Gerald Kay Soupor was particularly effective a.; Sir Sharles, and looked well in the Dutch scene. Mr John Fernsido, Mias Katie Towers, and Miss Nancye Stewart were also admirable in their various pants. Put what luck to see such a pkiy—and -c well done.” To this good play is wedded much good music, and a delightful succession of scenes. It is doubtful if there is any artist of the English-speaking stage today who could rival the portraiture presented by Miss Emelie Polini in I My Lady’s Dress.’ To follow ‘My Lady’s Dress’ are announced for two nights crieh ‘The Lie,,’ ‘French Leave,’ and ‘The Flaw.’