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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 21

Joseph Cunningham has engaged Peter Gawthorne, who will play the “Examiner” in “Outward Bound,” which will be produced soon in Melbourne. The company is enjoying a successful season. .

A real novelty act, to be presented with the J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville, is that of Rich and Adair, the Lrilliant American character comedian and his beautiful lady partner. Phil Rich in America to-day is looked upon as one of the greatest “old man” delineators in the country, and through the States it has been forever an argument as to how old Phil really is without his grease-paint and makeup. The season will open in Auckland on July 19.

A new comic writer, hailed as a prospective Schnitzler, has made his appearance on the Berlin stage, in a remarkable modern play, “Ollapotrida,” •Here,” says the Berlin correspondent of the New York “Times,” “is a young author with an individual style in dialogue and satiric implication in his characterisation. If the first plays do not prove merely deceptive heat iightning, he seems predestined to fill the position formerly held by Arthur Schnitzler.”

The following are the established stage successes in London at present: “The Constant Nymph,” “Broadway,” “Lido Lady,” “Yellow Sand 3,” “The Gold Diggers,” “Interference” and “The Letter.” The London stage, in fact, with the season drawing upon it, finds itself in the unwonted position of having more than a round dozen of theatres whose managements are entirely content with the plays they have produced. There are a few more, doing very comfortably, that have not been mentioned in the above list. But even without these last, the record of successful productions is higher than it .has been for a very long time past. Another fact that is worth noting, is that there is no immediate question at the moment of there being a theatre “boom” or a theatre “slump.” Most of the plays are good of their various kinds.