COMEDY AND PATHOS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20906, 21 December 1929, Page 6

COMEDY AND PATHOS.

HAPPILY BLENDED IN FULLER COMEDY.

Revolving round a mothers efforts to find her daughter a suitable husband, ‘‘The Family Upstairs'’ happily blends comedy and pathos as will be seen when the play , opens at a matinee in the Princess Theatre on Boxing Day. It is plain in the first act that the mother is worried over something, and that something turps out to be her daughter’s future. When a young man enters the daughter’s life the mother gives him a false idea of the family’s position, and later, of course, complications arise, and the plot moves on through a touching scene between the daughter and her family to a happy reconciliation and a satisfactory final curtain. Leona Hogarth and John Warwick, the daughter and suitor respectively, arc called upon to make rapid changes from shrinking. frightened sweethearts to champions of their own cause when they see their happiness slipping away from them through misunderstanding. The mother CMarv Curtin) and the father (Wythe Birch), a tramway employee, are just what one would expect—a typical middle-class couple. Booking particulars are announced elsewhere in this issue.