'THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN'

Evening Star, Issue 23122, 23 November 1938, Page 7

'THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN'

FIRST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT To-night at 8 o’clock at His Majesty’s Theatre the Dunedin Repertory Society will commence its twenty-third major production. The play selected is ‘ The I Late Christopher Bean,’ a three-act comedy translated from the French by Ernlwn Williams. The late Christopher Bean had been a painter in a little Midland village, but during his lifetime he had never succeeded in catching the eye of the art critics. He had given most of his pictures away to friends,'

notably to a country doctor and his family, who had shown him kindness, After his death connoisseurs suddenly began to demand his pictures, and art dealers descended on the village in search of his pictures. The doctor and his family were no art critics, but when wily dealers began offering good money for canvasses that the doctor had used for stopping up leaks in the attic they began to take notice—and then the fun beo ;ins. The cast selected to interpret this comedy is as follows: —Mrs A. C. Stephens, Mrs .1. L. Anderson, Mrs C. W. Adamson, Mrs R. .Jones. Messrs H. H. Westwood, Ken Donaldson, John Hayward, I). C. Chisholm, and Ernest Fish. The producer is Miss Ngaio Marsh. Box plans are at the D. 1.0.