“IS ZAT SO?”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 11

“IS ZAT SO?”

: Ts Zat So?” will be opened at His Majesty’s Theatre to-morrow night. When 1 Richard Taber and James Gleason wrote “Is Zat So?” they created the two principal characters to suit tho former and Halo ; Norcross. Physically they are exact opposites. Norcross is thin and wiry and wriggles like an eel. Taber is broad-shouldered and brawny and stands like a rock. Iht.o is i a similar mental quality contrasted in the I m ake-up of the pair of characters. How : they are engaged as footman and butler respectively in a New York household: how I they woo two damsels below stairs there; how they stage a prize fight there, and how they succeed in unmashing the villain of the piece are phases of a play that is said to bo the cause of one continuous roar of laughter. “Is Zat So?’ has made a huge fortune for its anthois. Bichard Taber said tho other day he had sufficient 1 money for the rest of his life but he explained that tho play was like a baby to him and that he could never tear him- ! self away from it. Supporting the principals are Barrio Liveslcy Mary Ellen Hanley Maude Carroll, Virginia Norton, Sammy Green, Claude Saunders, Daphne Baird Douglas Vigors, Arthur Cornell, and Herbert Leigh. Messrs J. C. Williamson have sent along tho entire New Vork proi duction, and the comedy will be seen oxI actly as produced in New York and Lon--1 don. Tho box plans are now open.