HIS MAJESTY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 15

HIS MAJESTY’S

“LADY, BE GOOD” This morning, at Lewis R. Eady and Son’s, Ltd., there was a very large demand for seats when the box plans were opened for the approaching season of “Lady Be Good,” the phenomenally successful musical comedy triumph, which is to be staged for the first time here on Saturday afternoon and night next, and on subsequent evenings. The terrific success won by Elsie Prince, Jimmy Godden, Charlton Mjprton, and the other principals of the company in “No, No, Nanette” has fiaturally infused much interest in the production of “Lady Be Good,” and it will probably be greeted by a large audience on the opening night. The story of “Lady Be Good” opens when Judy Trevor (Elsie Prince) and Dick Trevor (Leonard Rich), last representatives of an impoverished family, are ejected from the ancestral home, and deposited, with their few belongings, on the footpath, where they immediately set up housekeeping. Dick is in love with Shirley Vernon (Elsie Parkes), who returns his affection, but he is compelled to his designing admirer, Josephine Vanderwater (Nellie Deane) because of financial considerations. J. Waterson Watkins, an enterprising lawyer (Jimmy

Godden) prevails upon Judy to impersonate the widow of Jack Robinson (Claude Holland), an heir, to secure a fortune. Judy has to pose as a Mexican girl, and is hourly in danger of exposure. To make her position more difficult, she is confronted with Jack Robinson, whom she has previously known, and learned to admire, as a tramp. Jack sizes up the situation, and says nothing until compelled to do so in order to extricate the girl from a predicament. Havingarrived at an understanding, the way is thus opened for Dick to propose to Shirley Vernon. From here on numerous complications, amusing and dramatic, arise, and the interest •is kept up until the final fall of the curtain. As Bertie Bassett, an amateur detective, Mr. Charlton Morton takes an active part in the fun-making. Elsie Prince is said to be particularly delightful as the vivacious Mexican widow, and her affectation of the Spanish language and temperament makes her very alluring. The dances, the ensembles, and the ballets are outstanding features of “Lady Be Good.