PLAYS IN LONDON

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 246, 29 September 1934, Page 14

PLAYS IN LONDON

Glimpses of the Shows Mr Ronald Adam, manager of th? Embassy and Phoenix Theatres, London, was responsible for the production at the New Theatre last month of i stage version in French of Dostoivcsky’s great novel, “Crime and Punish merit.” Mr Adam saw the play it. Paris and took it to London. There were twenty scenes, unfolded with the technique of the cinema and the latest lighting ideas. The Hungarian musical comedy. “Cat in the Sack’’ (“Pig in a Poke’ ) lias been played in London under the title of “Happy Week-end.”

Carol Goodlier has been playing in the Arts Theatre production in Londoj of the comedy from the French, “The Orchard,” a story of mismating that I'liH'i • an element of pathos with it. Miss .odner was a quiet’sincere Jane, to the self-conscious Manuella of C'athleen Nesbitt, the Michael of Leon Quar-

termaine, and the John of Anthony Ireland.

Owen Nares, Lilian Braithwaite, and Viola Keats were starred in the LennoxRobinson play “All’s Over, Then?” at London Comedy Theatre. It is a serious tragic play set in England. Clifford Bax’s new play “April in August,” was played at the Phoenix Theatre, London, by the Manchester Repertory Company-, under the direc tion of Gabriel Toyne, husband of Margaret Rawlings, who was in New Zealand with “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.” It is the study of a man in the August of his life who experiences the emotions of April. Corneill’s “Le Cid,” Victor Hugo’s “Huy Blas,” Moliere’s “Le Misan thrope, ” and Pierre Eronadie's “L’lnsouniise” were among the plays put on at Cambridge Theatre last month by M. Albert Lambert, doyen of the Comedie Francaise, a tragedian who has played all the romantic roles and heroes of Victor Hugo and Racine. He brought a company of French men and women to Cambridge.