‘UP IN MABEL'S ROOM'

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 10

‘UP IN MABEL'S ROOM'

MEW COMEDY TO-NIGHT ‘ Up in Mabel’s Hoorn,’ the farcical comedy to be presented at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night, is a scream of laughter from beginning to end. In New York and London it had very extensive runs and was considered the most .successful comedy , production of the season. W. J. C. Barr’s comedians, who have just finished a season at the Theatre Iloyal, Christchurch, and the Palace Theatre, Sydney, are probably one of the most suitable companies that could have been gathered together for the production. They are all comedians of high merit, and laughgetting is their strong point. ‘Up In Mabel’s Room ’ has been described as “ one long laugh,” and the Christchurch Press remarked that there were very many buckled shirt fronts in the audience after the first performance, the laughs being so hearty and sidesplitting. The story is about a young man who, in an amorous moment in Paris, sends an attractive widow a present of a certain piece of lingerie. Meeting at a house party afterwards, in order to play a joke on him, she threatens to show it to tho wife he had acquired in tho meantime. In order to prevent that, ho attempts to steal it with the assistance of his faithful servant. Their attempts are. excruciatingly funny, and the difficulties and ridiculous situations they get into are provocative of the greatest merriment. Mr Billy O’llanlon, an English comedian well known in London in musical and farcical comedy, is making his first appearance in New Zealand in the part of Garry, the young man who gets into all the trouble. Miss Zara Clinton, who hails from Canada, where she has been starring in all the leading theatres, takes the title role. All the other memhers of the company are first-class artists, who take a prominent part in the fun-making. Thev include Eric Harrison, Warwick Beattie, A. Brandon Greiner. Thomas M'Dermott, and Misses Hilda Alien boro, Shirley Cooke, Sybil Atholwood, and Alice Newcombe. The box plan arrangements are as advertised.