GUY BATES POST

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12353, 25 January 1926, Page 4

GUY BATES POST

FAMOUS ARTIST COMING. ! Wellington will have a wonderful j treat during the forthcoming season of Guy Bates Post, which is under the direction of J. O. Williamson (N.Z.), Ltd., for the famous actor’s visit will provide the dramatio event of the decade in this city. The most, distinguished newspaper critics in Australia : have been hard put to it to find sufficient stocks of laudatory adjectives to describe the great actor’s art. for when a celebrated star of Mr Post’s fame extends his season into nearly five months (as did Mr Post recently 1 in Sydney) even the largest vocabulary of glowing expressions becomes i exhausted. The dramatic critic of the ; Melbourne “Herrid,” in the course of [ a fine notice of the renowned Victor’s I work says: “With Guy Bates Post, j you have the feeling that all the time he is playing, his mind is fiercely ton- ! csntrated on his -part...... I believe I that if he was on the stage bound hand; and foot, and gagged, he could still make an audience follow his thought.” Another prominent critic says: “His : genius compels his auditors to feel they are part and parcel of the play. Actor and audience become welded as one—fused in the fineness of a single thought.’’ The opening performance at the Grand Opera House next Saturday night will be “The Masquerader,” and in his characterisations in the dual roles of John Chilcote, M.P., and John Loder, Mr Post rises to the heights of dramatio perfection, according to the Sydney and-Melbourne cri-. tics, and the audierres see before them a shining example c» the consummate artist. "The Masquerader” affords Mr Post two roles worthy of his genius, and it. was this powerful drama .that first gained for him his international reputation. The clever Australian actress; Miss Eileen Sparks, will be, seen in the leading feminine i role of “Eve Ohilcote,” and the young Wellington-born artist, Miss Cecil Haines, will appear in an excellent character part. Many well-known namedtinduding those of Messrs Ashton TOwery, - Leslie Victor, and Eric Maxon—are in the long list of Mr Post’s' supporting artiste. The Wellington season will be limited to 17 nights, and “Tho Bad Man” and “The Green Goddess” will he staged, in addition to “The Masquerader.” The box plans for the six nights of “The Masquerader” will open at the Bristol next Thursday morning.