J. C. WILLIAMSON'S COMEDY COMPANY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9620, 28 March 1917, Page 6

J. C. WILLIAMSON'S COMEDY COMPANY

The New J. C. Willh.inson Comedy Company, headed by .Miss- Beatrice Holloway, who last visited New Zealand as leading hulv with Mr prod ,Niblo in “Get Rich ijuick Waffing.ford," and Mr Robert Greig, who was associated with Mr Hugh JWard for so many yours, will open their Wellington season at the Grand Opera blouse on Grater Saturday night, in George M. Caban’s brilliant mystery farce. “Seven Keys to Mald•patc.” Probably no other play in rccens years has had such a vogue as ‘‘Baldpate." There in not one moment throughout the play that is not unusual, freakish, and brilliantly absorbing. Cannes trow trey had ad London running to ste it, and thesame has been the case wherever it uas been produced. Air Fred Niblo scored one of his. greatest Australian ■successes with this pl.iy, and Miss Beatrice Holloway , and- Air Robert Craig created a new comedy record -with it in South Africa under the J. C. Williamson banner last year. The atory of the play is stated to bo meat happily conceived and brilliantly carried oiit by the playwright, and there is an element of tho fantastic about it which makes it just the very play for tho Easter season. In addition to the two principals, the company, which is said to be a particularly strong one. will include Fred Cambourne, Guy Hastings, Edwin Lester, Kenneth Brampton, Herbert Leigh, Olivo Farnumm, Thomas Lloyd, Raymond Lawrence, Harold Moran, Violet Yorke Mrs Chailes Holloway, Marion Marcus Clarke, and Esther Mitchell. Tho box plans will open at tho Bristol next Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.