OPERA HOUSE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE

FARCE COMEDY COMPANY. A form of entertainment for which there is always a demand is well-acted farco comedy. Most theatre-goers like to forgot tho cares and worries of everyday life by laughing heartily at the comic cares and difficulties of tho people in the play, with tho knowledge that all will be well in tho last act, and that the humorous entanglements are not quite real. A farce with the laughs coming so quickly that they appear to bo just one long laugh opens at tho Opera House to-night. It is “Up in Mabel’s Room” and will be presented by Mr J. C. Barr’s comedians, who are visiting New Zealand for the first time after a successful tour of the leading J. C. Williamson theatres in Australia. The company includes many well-known actors and actresses —Miss Zara Clinton, tho leading comedienne; Mr Billy o’llanlon, the unfortunate “hero” who gets into all kinds of ridiculous entanglements and creates an endless amount of amusement by his frantic endeavours to get out of them; Messrs Eric Harrison, Jack Beattie, Brandon Cremer, Thomas McDermott and Misses Shirley Cook, Barbara Birch and Sybil Atholwood. To-morrow night another farce, equally as funny as “Up in Mabel’s Room,” will be presented. It is entitled “Oh! Richard I How Could You?” Tho box plan arrangements are advertised.