A FINE BRITISH PLAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 23

A FINE BRITISH PLAY.

PRESENTATION AT GARRICK THEATRE. (From Our Own Cor: spondent.) LONDON. January 18. Theatrical critics continue te take every opportunity to refer to Captain Reginald Berkeley’s latest play, “ The Lady With a Lamp.” They have all been so enthusiastic about it, and have expressed the hope that after its eight performances before the Arts Theatre Club it would be brought to a West End theatre. Arrangements for this to be done have been made, and the general theatregoer will be abl to see the play at the Garrick toward the end of the month.' In the Daily Mail Mr Alan Parsons wrote this week:—

The best news that 1929 has. brought to the theatre so far is that in the very first week of the year we have hatl a really fine British play. Captain Berkeley’s “ Th» Lady With a Lamp ** deserves a far wider audience than it can find in a limited run at the Arts Theatre Club, and I imagine it is sure to be transferred to a bigger theatre for a run. Miss Ed’th Evans gave the performance of her life as Florence Nigthingale’s it would have been so easy to have stressed the fanatical Side, but she managed to show the humanity and the femininity of the great woman throughout. She and Mi Leslie Banks and the Arts Theatre Club are to be congratulated on a notable achievement.

Captain Berkeley is well, maintaining the position he made for himself among playwrights when he brought out “ French Leave ” after the war.