RENEE KELLY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 2

RENEE KELLY

TO-NIGHT AT MUNICIPAL THEATRE.

Renee Kelly, the famous English actress with J. C. Williamson’s new English Comedy Company, will make her first appearance before Hastings theatre-goers to-night at 8 p.m. at the Municipal Theatre, in London’s big piay success. ‘ * The Last of Mrs Cheyney” by Frederick Lonsdale (the author of “Aren’t We Alli”). ‘ ‘ The Last of Mrs Cheyney ’ ’ caused a tremendous sensation in London. It is full of witty sayings and has a dramatic plot that grows more and more striking as the play proceeds.) “The Last of Mrs Cheyney” will be played here for to-night only and will be’ followed to-morrow night by another of Miss Kelly’s great successes. “Polly with a Rast,” a comedy in three acts, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton. The play is light and blight and has a story of outstanding interest. The “Evening Rost,” Wellington, m describing Miss Kelly’s opening performance in New Zealand, says:—“At the Opera House a large audience was entertained by the performance of ‘Polly with a Rast.s The play introduced Miss Renee Kelly. First seen as a kind of cook-housemaid to two bachelors in a New York flat, amF wearing the cap and dress of servitude, Polly interests her employers by certain little words she lets drop about her antecedents. As Polly the domestic she is to change to Paulette, the ‘wrecker of thrones, the breaker of homes,’ the bold, bad French woman. The part gives Miss Kelly all the opportunity she could reasonably ask to display her rare ability as an actress, her attractive personality, and her consummate taste in wearing clothes that make the ladies in the audience tremulous with delight. As both Polly and Paulette Miss Kelly was equally successful, and the house took her, figurativey speaking, to its bosom. It also called for a speech on the fall of the curtain. The keynote if? that speech was gratitude for her cordial reception.” “Polly with n Past” will conclude the season here to-morrow night.. Box plans arc at Fail’s, where tremendous booking is being recorded for to-night and to morroff night’s performances.