GRAND OPERA HOUSE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 11

GRAND OPERA HOUSE

“IS ZAT SO.”

The box plan for the “Is Zat So” season open this morning at the Bristol, and the company arrive per the Uiimaroa from Sydney to-day, where they have had a wonderfully successful season first at the Palace Theatre, which was not large enough to accommodate the crowds who endeavoured to get in, so the pieoe was transferred to the Criterion Theatre. It is seldom that New Zealanders have a chance of seeing an original production with practically the whole of the members of the original cast. However, J. C. Williamson, Ltd., have on this occasion sent over the entire production as produced in New York. “Is Zat So” has been termed the greatest laughing success of the century, and it is somewhat different to the usual run of comedies. There is a real plot, three, pairs of lovers and a few thrills. The two leading characters are played by Hale Norcross and Richard Taber, who is part author of the piece, as the footman and the butler, but who previously were a prize fighter and his manager. There is some very pretty scenery, and the mounting of the piece is of a high order. On account of the number of attractions coming to New Zealand seven nights onlv can he allowed for this comedy in Wellington. Judging from its advance reports, crowded houses should be the rule, all the season.