“GIVE AND TAKE”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12453, 22 May 1926, Page 7

“GIVE AND TAKE”

BRILLIANT FARCE COMEDY. On Monday evening next at the Grand Opera House and for a season of seven nights only J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in conjunction with E. J. Carroll, present the famous international Hebroiv comedian, Harry Green, in “Give and Take,” a farce comedy by Aaron Hoffman (author of “Welcome Stranger”). The play had a year’s run in London, also in New York, and has broken all comedy records in Sydney aaid Melbourne. “An audience that laughed till its tonsils were sore filled the Criterion Theatre on Saturday night to greet the Hoffman farce ‘Give and Take,’ in which E. J. Carroll has struck another winner,” says the Sydney “Bulletin.” “As the bones on which to hang its humour the farce has a good story. John Bauer, after thirty years of struggle, has built up a fruitAianning business, but is nipped financially in a struggle with a trust in the midst of which his son, who has picked up Socialist ideas at a university returns to organise the work ers, including his ‘Old Reliable,’ foreman and friend, Albert Kruger, the idea being to demand an ‘lndustrial Democracy’ which will give them a share of control and of profits. Although kicking hard, Bauer agrees to give the arrangement a month’s trial, partly because he is broken-hearted to find his son against him, and partly because he desperately wants to avoid a strike which will give the trust a victory. Under a system of control in which the factory whistle is blowing every few minutes for a ‘rest period’ or a meeting of the ‘industrial congress’ a crisis arrives in the business, but ultimately after a series of situations which are dramatic enough but always have laughter in their tail, a millionaire idealist, who has escaped from a lunatic asylum, helps the story to a satisfactory conclusion, with sanity and prosperity once more prevailing at the works, and a matrimonial event in the offing.” The company commenced their Dominion tour in Auckland, and from advices received the theatre was booked out to welcome this combination, which has everywhere established records. The box plans are rapidly filling at the Bristol.