ENGLISH COMEDY COMPANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12602, 12 November 1926, Page 3

ENGLISH COMEDY COMPANY

j IN FASHIONABLE FARC E, ! “Just priceless’ 5 is said to be the common expression which sums up j “The Unfair Sex.” ?.r:c. Hudson’s three i act farce-comedy, to be produced for i a brief season at the Grand Opera I House on Tuesday next with one of 'London’s big star actresses, Miss Zillah Bateman, in a favourite part, supported by a distinguished company who have simply carried all before them in Sydney. “The Unfair Sex” was one of the few big London successes of ’24 and *25. It put up a record by being produced twice daily at the Savoy Theatre, London, with two separate companies, for just on two years, and that is >yhv it was selected as the premiere for Kew Zealand, despite the fact this company has “Eliza Comes to Stay,” “The Sport of Kings,” and “Outward Bound” (now causing something of a sensation in America) in its truly wonderful repertoire. However. fair Sex” is claimed to be a positively assured success, and a splendid vehicle to show off the supreme art of Miss Zillah Bateman and her brilliant supporting company. Briefly the plot is as follows: In an unguarded moment Geoffrey Trevor, a married man, kisses his wife’s guest, Joan Delisse, and on the same morning his uncle catches Trevor’s wife, Diana, in the arms of Harvey Fane, a young , writer of romantic fiction.' The meddlesome uncle hints at the incident, and the husband leans to the conclusion that his own delinquency is being referred to, whereupon he gives himself nwov. The uncle then contrives that husband and wife shall both think their lapse known to each other, and the game of cross-purposes thus set in motion leads to some screamingly laughable situations that are some of the cleverest seen in modern farce comedy for many years. “The Unfair Sex” gives scope for a fine display of frocks from London, and Pans. Tho box plans for “The Unfair Sex are now open at the Bristol.