LONDON PRAISE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 22

LONDON PRAISE

Marie Ney’s Work Lauded by Critics WELLINGTON GIRL’S SUCCESS Marie Ney, the Wellington girl who is winning great praise for her work on the London stage, continues to go from success to success. She has recently finished a very successful season as Kate Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer.” Throughout the 10 weeks that the play was on the Lyric Theatre was always full, and Miss Ney had a personal triumph at every performance. Sir Nigel Playfair changes his plays fairly often, even though hi 3 houses remain profitable, so that now the public have the opportunity of seeing two very amusing pieces in Sheridan’s “The Critic,” and Mr. A. P. Herbert’s “Two Gentlemen of Soho.” Miss Ney takes the principal woman’s part in “The Critic.” Although this was written 150 years ago in most respects it is as applicable to-day as on the day it was first produced. The types connected with the stage are all with us now. Not only are there the actor, the author, the critic, the manager, but there are the amateur author, the “literary” autor, the author who pays to have his plays produced, the author who “never reads the Press notices,” and yet knows them by heart, the Press agent, the puffer, and the amateur commercial manager. This brilliant satire revived found an appreciative audience. Of Miss Ney’s work, the “Daily Telegraph” says: “She is funny throughout, but she is best in the scene where she loses her temper at the author’s constant interruptions, and in the mad scene, so that you feel not only that Miss Ney’s Tilburnia is comic, but also that her Ophelia would be tragic.”