HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 4

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

1 QUARANTINE.’ The second performance of this comedy by tho Williamson Company drew a large audience last night, and they got plenty of fun for their money. Mr Lawrence Grosemith’s comedy work is of the intellectual order, and he pays his hearers the compliment of assuming that they also possess brains—in treatment of a joke is to point it properly and leave the audience to' drive it home. Miss Dorothy Seacombe also sustains her part with great credit, her acting being very dainty yet always characterised by a degree of vigor which is rare in so young an actress. Miss Diana Wilson’s portrayal of the beguiling, philosophical, and exotic Lola is in parts on a level with her work in the previous pieco. This actress has personality and a good voice, and she may bo doing big things on tho stage some day, possibly in tragedy. Most of tho supporting memibers of the company play up to the principals in a distinctly competent • manner. Mr Ashton Jerry’s sketch of the unsocial shipboard traveller ia a delightful original study, and the fugitive appearances of tho malapropos “odious kid,’.’ who flits about tho deck and gets in everybody’s way, were so fresh and so laughable as to make one sorry that the girl’s name is not mentioned in the programme. 1 Quarantine ’ is to bo repeated this evening. ■THE SILVER FOX’TO-MORROW. ‘ The Silver Fox,’ another big Lawrence Grossmith comedy success, will be presented to-morrow and Thursday nights—the two final nights of the season. It is a thoroughly modern piece, the scenes cf whim’ll are laid near London. In the role of Edmund Quilter, Mr Lawrence Grnssmith is said to bo responsible for a brilliant exoosition of that artistry that has placed him in tho front rank of English actors of to-day. The play will be mounted and appointed in the usual elegant J. C. Williamson manner. Cosmo Hamilton, author of ‘Scandal.’ adapted it from the original of Franz Herezog, and it is said to be far superior to anything that has hitherto borne his name. According to a leading Sydney critic ‘ The Silver Fox ’ is a gem of epigram, satire, and human interest, dealt with sceptically —almost cynically—yet ringing true and hitting clean through it, at times becoming delicious farce. To Lawrence Grossmith falls the graceful comedy role of an indulgent novelist who can love an iceberg and a volcano in one play, and ho eqnMlv true to both. The box plana are at The Bristol.