‘YOUNG WOODLEY’

Evening Star, Issue 20217, 3 July 1929, Page 8

‘YOUNG WOODLEY ’

‘Young Woodley,’ John Van Bruton’s story of college life, will ho staged at His Majesty’s Theatre for a season of live nights, commencing on Wednesday next. The combination presenting this gem of English school life introduces to theatregoers a new company of youthful English artists. A slightly-built lad with fair wavy ,-air (if you please, ho is only eighteen), named Lewis Shaw, plays the lead in ‘ Young Woodley.’ Shaw (who regrets that he is no relative of the great G. 8.5., though he has met him when ho played in ‘Saint Joan’.with Sybil Thorndike) has a tuneful, unaffected voice, and a happy and friendly manner. His two great passions are “to do anything on a stage and “all kinds of sport.” Miss Natalie Moya, an English actress whom audiences will soon know as tho schoolmaster’s wife, with whom Young Woodley is in love, was born in Australia, but was taken abroad when still in her knitted bootic days. Miss Moya was in Africa with Moscovitch. Michael Macowcn and George Preston are two young Englishmen who play the parts of the school pals of Woodley. Frank Royde, an experienced actor-producer, appears as the housemaster. Other people in tho cast are Trevor Brogan, a youth of eleven, Guy Hastings, and Clara Jenkins. In ‘Young Woodley’ Natalie Moya is tlio wife of the, austere, self-centred schoolmaster, who discovers her in an embrace with one of the students. She promises not to see the youth again. Tims does the student got the idea that she was just fooling him. Ho loses faith in women and the world in general. A change is only affected by the wife contriving to assure him that she still has—and always will have —a |: c love for him. Thereupon ho enters his father’s business with a better id cleaner view oi life. “And,” remarks Miss Moya in reference to adverse comments the play has evoked, “what have you got to say against thatt” Tho box plans open on Monday.