GUY BATES POST

Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 6

GUY BATES POST

Its second presentation at His Majesty's last evening found a big audience entranced by the splendid scones, the thrills, aud (best of all) the line acting in ‘ The Green Goddess,’ a play in an Oriental setting, with Gif Bates Post as a rajah. The adventures of the three British folk who eventually find themselves in the potentate's bad graces are portrayed with m effectiveness in which several clcvijr illusions assist greatly. The story itself is intriguingly told by tho author, 5r William Archer, but Mr Post and hs company lend a touch that makes t particularly acceptable. On them dd pends tho task of a logical intorpretai tion of scones that are improbable; though not altogether impossible. The audience goes away convinced that the, situations that made them gasp so often 1 , might arise in given circumstances i “any old time,” and that, combined' with the excellence of the night’s entertainment, is a tribute to the second of Guy Rates Post’s vehicles for characterisation. Before he takes the role of “ The Bad Man ” (beginning on Monday evening) Mr Post will don the turban once more to-night for the final presentation of ‘ The Green Goddess.’ ’ THE BAD MAH 1 On Monday and Tuesday nights Mr Guy Bates Post and his supporting company will make their two final appearances here, and the occasions will be noteworthy from the fact that they will signalise tho initial representations in Dunedin of tho thrilling and picturesque comcdy-drama, ‘ The Bad Man;’ which has created a furore of enthusiasm wherever it has been staged. Writing of the initial production in Wellington, the ‘Dominion’ stated: “ When the bad man killed he did a service to mankind, for he killed only ‘ evil men.’ Laws and customs were tedious, meddlesome, and futile. Tho only free country was tho place where a man could do just what he wanted to —so long as he was not killed in doing it. So thought Pancho Lopez, tho swaggering, cruel, care-free, astute—but with it all fair—Mexican bandit, who appeared at the door of Gilbert Jones’s ranch in Arizona, just as Morgan Peel, an unscrupulous scoundrel, was in the act of branding his beautiful wife on tho forehead. When Mr Guy Bates Post in tho, role of Lopez appeared in ‘ Tho Bad Man,’ a three-act dramatic comedy, at the Opera-house on Saturday evening, he was accorded a measure of appreciation seldom tendered a distinguished actor by a Wellington audience. The play comprised three long acts of thrills, tense and dramatic scenes, and incidents even pathetic iu their absurdity, with a strong vein of irresponsible humor, which was so cleverly woven into the theme as to provide timely relief iu the most precarious situations. The fall of the curtain on the second act signalised a sustained round of applause, and Mr Post Has called to tho front many times. At the end of the day he took five ‘ curtains,’ and was then brought to the front amid thunderous applause to acknowledge this fitting tribute to his triumphal performance of brilliant duracter acting.” Tie whole of tho company arc seen at their best in ‘ The Bad Man,’ for "hica the booking is already heavy.