“STUDENT PRINCE” TO-NIGHT
“MADAME POMPADOUR’’ TOMORROW.
The biggest comic opera attraction that the J. C. Williamson firm has ever sent to the Dominion is the advent in Hastings to-night at the Municipal Theatre of the Royal Comic Opera Company presenting the “Student Prince.” The play, which is a musical version of the delightful romantic drama “Old Heidelberg,” has broken all known records in Sydney and Melbourne. It has also established other records. One is the appearance of Beppie do Vries, a brilliant Dutch leading lady, who has become the idol of theatregoers throughout Australia, and is sure to be popular here. Another is the reintroduction of the male chorus. In this play, the famous chorus of forty singing students is a big factor. Another record is the number of specially imported artists and popular favourites who appear. The new people include James Liddy, who has appeared in Europe in the part of Prince -Karl in "The Student” over 1,000 times. Hedley Hall and Frank Webster both come with big English reputations. Favourites already, and also to appear are, Arthur Stigant, Aera Spoull, Adele Crane, Herbert Browne, John Forde and Millie Engler. “The Student Prince” is by far the biggest and most expensive musical attraction that the firm has yet sent to the Dominion. The complete company, principals, chorus and orchestra, that has for so many months created a furore nightly at His Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, is to appear in the Dominion. The company’s second production “Madame Pompadour,’ is a romantic comic opera written round the life of La Pompadour. Tn her day the most rxipular lady in France, she ruled King Louis and his statesmen. One critic says: “There is nothing, after all. so enjoyable as the ‘period play'; it takes one away out of oneself into the realm of the beyond, makes unrealities seem real, and dresses true; it clothes the beautiful in gorgeous trappings and the ludricous in quaint caricature, glorifies sweet sentiment and illuminates the spirit of song.’’ Box plans are now open at Fail’s.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 8
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