LEON GORDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16

LEON GORDON

TO APPEAR SHORTLY Leon Gordon and his company arrived in Wellington this week, and commenced a season of tense drama at the Grand Opera House, where nightly crowded audiences pay testimony to the intriguing work of Vav;.rd Veiller, author of “The Trial of Mary Dugan.” New Zealanders will revel in the unusual atmosphere of the theatres during the Mary Dugan seus°n: never before have they comprised the body of the court sitting in judgment on a girl on trial for her life The novelty will not wear off in a hurry. The company is one of the soundest ever sent across the Tasman i«y the Firm, and nothing but the high- • st praise is due to its members for their sincere work. The audience is gathered into a sense of stern responsibility by the actors, who address themselves to the auditorium. May Collins is Marv Dugan, the wealthy man’s mistress who is charged with his murder, only »o be saved from the chair by an unexpected and most sensational denouement.

The Leon Gordon Company, which comes to Auckland shortly, will submit a revival of Cosmo Hamilton’s success. “Scandal,” as its second piece de resistance

A nation-wide contest has determined the title to be used for Universal s newspaper Jewel production by Peter B. Kyne. It will be called "Freedom of the Press.” Lewis Stone, Marceline Day and Malcolm McGregor are the featured players.