AMUSEMENTS. DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE SEASON. ‘SAINT JOAN.’ LAST DAY. ‘SAINT JOAN.' LAST DAY. To-night will be positively the last performance of ‘ St. Joan,’ the Wonderful Bernard Shaw Play, which so thrilled and delighted the hugo audience last evening. CURTAIN RISES: To-night, 7.50. To-night, 7.50. JJIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Direction J. C. Williamson Ltd. By arrangement Chcrniavski Bureau, London. TO-MORROW EVENING, At 8. TO-MORROW EVENING, At 8. “ What grace and passion, what declamatory power, what emotional depths Dame Sybil can present. To what heights sho can soar! 1 !”—(‘Telegraph’). The greatest Theatrical Event Dunedin has ever known, the first and only performance of the famous Greek Tragedy, .‘THE MEDEA OP EURIPIDES.’ ‘THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.’ Dame Sybil in one of her greatest roles. Dame Sybil in one of her greatest roles. “ Passionate hate, the fiercest exultation of revenge, blackest despair, all were rendered with a force and subtlety which bore the stamp of a great heart.”—(‘ Melbourne Herald.’) To-morrow Evening will bo a dramatic event that rarely happens and of outstanding importance. In response to many requests Damo Sybil Thorndike will present for one occasion only the famous Greek Tragedy, ‘MEDEA OP EURIPIDES.’ ‘ MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.’ ‘ MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.’ No play in the whole literature of the Tragic Drama contains so much unrelieved passion and vengeance as this terrific play. SPECIAL MEMO. ‘ MEDEA ’ will bo preceded by a series of Classical Dances by MICHAEL | and HESTER MARTIN HARVEY. 1 |dusic by Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky. FRIDAY EVENING, ‘MACBETH.’ FRIDAY EVENING, ‘MACBETH.’ SATURDAY AFTERNOON and EVENING, A DELIGHTFULLY ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA. WITH DAME SYBIL IN A TRULY COMIC ROLE. ‘ MADAME PLAYS NAP.’ “ Dame Sybil turns her hand to comedy in a story of Beauvais, the .big-hearted light o’ love of Napoleon’s early days, and scores all the way.'*—(‘Melbourne Age.') PRICES: 7s, ss, 4s, 2s (Plus Tax). Plans at Bristol. Day Sales Rialto.
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Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 9
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