WILLIAMSON COMEDY COMPANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17874, 3 March 1920, Page 3

WILLIAMSON COMEDY COMPANY

"YES, TOSCLE."

The J. C. Williamson New Musical Comedy Company will oommenoe an 11 nights' season in Dunedin on Tuesday next with "Yes, Uncle," said to be the very latest thing in successful light opera in London. Tie plot mainly hinges upon the predicament of a young artist who marries the new love before ho got rid of the old. Caught in a more than merely tight corner he arranges for a friend to impersonate him, not knowing that his wife has made a similar arrangement. The inevitable rich uncle turns up to pour his fortune into the lap of a nephew who is really no relation, and a nieoe-in-law who is in fact a typical merry widow with nothing to do with the case in point. And that's only the beginning of the tangle which receives its eventual solving in a sensational last act Miss Madge Elliott and Mr Cyril Kichards between them provide the secondary love interest of the play. Miss Gracie Lavers is another who confirms the impression made by her work in "Oh, Boy!" and the latter in "Going "Up." As a very young looking merry widow she has a lot to do, and is said to do it thoroughly weJl. One song, "Widows ore Wonderful,." is sure to prove one of the most popular of the many bright things in the piece. Miss Layers sings it with the "Exquisite Eight" a» a fancifully and wonderfully dressed background. From the / days of "So Long Letty," the "Exquisite Eight" have been one of the features of tho work of the New Comio Opera. In "Yea, Uncle!" they have a wealth of opportunities—and dresses They make the most of both. These girls have a reputation of never repeating themselves, and manage to live up to it in " Yes Undo!" A good song is a good thing' but sung with tho Eight as a background it becomes a cherished memory. Both Mr Alfred Frith and Field Fisher have excellent parts in Bobby Summers and Brabazon Hollybone respectively Mr William Greene (George Bellamy Stark) and Mr George Willoughby will be seen as a plotting So-rth American President. Harry Wootton_ (Gustavo) _ and Jack Hocker as an irresistible comio waiter. Miss Cecil Bradley is said to have a strong part in Jean, whilo both Miss Millie Englor (Bebe) and Mario Eaton (Lolita) have been x well provided foT. The mtcsio, which is olaimed to bo exceptionally bright and tuneful, is by the famous Nat. D. Aywr. There are two acts and three scenes, the last of which—-the Ballroom of tha l'onr Arts in Paris—is said to be an unusually fino exposition of the scene painter's art. "Yes, UV'e" will be played for the first, five night, the box plans for whioh will bo opened at tho Bristol an Friday morning next. - -4