MURIEL STARR

Evening Star, Issue 19349, 8 September 1926, Page 5

MURIEL STARR

HI ' THE "HOUSE CF GLASS' ‘ J Next Saturday the Muriel Starr Company will present Max Herein and George M. Cohan’s sterling and powerful drama, ‘The House of Glass,’ which has just had a most successful run of two years in America and England. ‘The House of Glassabounds in excellent and interesting incidents, and will afford theatregoers an opportunity of seeing what an exceptionally fine company Miss Starr has surrounded herself with. Mr Harvey Adams, a sterling English actor, who has been playing nnder J. C. Williamson’s, Ltd., banner for the last two years, will be seen as Hugh M'Lellan, the genial lawyer friend of the family, who takes up the cudgels and fights the _ fate which threatens to envelop his friends. Another member of the company is Mr Kenneth Brampton, whose name is familiar to Australian theatregoers. Miss Starr, who is now at the zenith of her fame, will have excellent opportunities of displaying her talents as an emotional actress as Margaret Case, who is unjustly imprisoned for a crime she did not commit. Tlvo box plan is now open at The Bristol Piano Company’s, and the season is limited to positively two nights only for ‘ The House of Glass.’

]n ‘The Goldfish,’ the bright comedy to ho prosentexl next Tuesday and Wednesday, Miss Muriel Starr plays the role of a young woman who embarks on a matrimonial marathon. From being the wife of a. struggling young artist, she marries in turn a wealthy, though rough-hewn, baron of business, and she has become the fiancee of a British duko when she returns to her complaisant and now-famous first husband. The play derives much of its humor from free employment of American. cliches and colloquial phrases. Miss Starr gives a brightly humorous rendering ol the part of the nighty lady of the story, as docs Mr Harvey Adams in the part of the foreign deportment. teacher. Mr Raymond Lawrence, Mr Charles Lawrence Miss Bortha BaHunger, and _ Mr Jvcmuth Brampton are well cast in their respective roles, and give adequate characterisations. On Thursday, 16th bepternber, the absorbing and _ powerlul society drama,* Madame X,’ will bo presented. That delightful comedy-drama ‘French Leave’ is announced for Friday 17th September, and for the far<v well’ ftttrarlion Miss Starr’s groat masterpiece, ‘’Within the Law,’ will bo presented on Saturday vSepiember 1R The box plans for these five brilliant plays are showing strong indication of crowded houses being present during the brief season.