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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 20

Mayne Linton, who was here with “The Ghost Train,” will stage Chevalier’s “My Old Dutch” at the Grand Opera House, Sydney, in the New Year. It is reported that Nellie Stewart will finance the production. Which surname has had most representation on the stage? Moore is certainly one of the best known. In Australia there were Maggie Moore and her niece Osgood Moore; Carrie Moore and her sisters Ivy, Lily, arui others; Elsie Moore (in musical comedy); Lottie Moore (from America, with Al. Bellman, in more than one vaudeville visit); and Tom Moore. Decima Moore, once a visitor in musical comedy, is a sister of other English actresses, one of whom is Eva Moore (Mrs. H. V. Esmond). Mary Moore (Lady Wyndliam) and Hilda Moore are among representatives of the name in England, ffnd in earlier years there have been several others. At various times Moore has been a familiar name in American theatres, as in those of other English-speaking countries.

• • • Allan Wilkie’s first production of “All’s Well that Ends Well” has fittingly been arranged for the last day of the year in Hobart, where the company will commence its Tasmanian season on December 26. “Coriolanus” will also be added to the repertoire in Hobart, and the order of other rlays has already been arranged. Mr. Wilkie says he will commence another season in Melbourne next June, and will then have 20 productions. In addition to “All’s Well that Ends Well” and “Coriolanus,” he will stage as his novelties “Richard II.,” and the first and second parts of “Henry IV.” Mr. Wilkie will then have produced 29 of Shakespeare’s plays in Australia, so there seems every reason that his ambition to do the lot will ba realised. The plays are to be staged better in future. Curtains will not be used for any scene. Special lighting effects will be introduced.

Renee Kelly, here with “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” and several other pieces, is playing in London in a oneact called “Quits.” It presents in fairly new trappings the old theory that a man’s estimate of his possessions varies directly with the security of his tenure. In this case the husband has wearied of his wife, home, and business, and, turning all his money into a trust for his wife and child, prepares to go away alone for ever. The wife, after first being staggered, proceeds in approved fashion to make him jealous by lying about her affaire with the trustee. The only possible result is obvious for rather too long before it arrives, and the change of the husband’s mind merely gratifies the audience by confirming their guess. The real justification for the sketch is the chance it gives Miss Kelly for a clever succession of moods and an excellent display of the methods of feminine strategy. Hylon Allen plays the husband.

A theatrical company was touring with a very mediocre revue, which had a lukewarm reception everywhere. One night, while the comedian was working through his poor maerial, one or the footlight globes exploded with a loud crash. The comedian instantlv w ®? t _ ofe the stage. “What’s wrong?*’ asked the dismayed manager. "Sir,” replied the comedian, “I always think it vise to stop when they begin throwing bottles.”