FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 8

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE Now Playing.—Kentucky Jubilee Singers. July 20-31.—Allan "Wilkie Company in old English comedies. COMING “This Tear of Grace,” Maisie Gay. “No. 17,” Nat Madison. “The Desert Song.” “Pigs,” and “Apple Sauce.” ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing.—Frank O’Brian’s Co. August 24. —“Rio Rita?’ Gladys Moncried. COMING “Lido Lady.” “Baby Cyclone” and “Good News," Elsie Prince and Jimmy Godden. Henry Ainley is acting with. Marie Tempest in a play called “The First Mrs. Fraser,” by St. John Ervine. “Vestia,” Dr. Marie Stopes’s play on sex questions, is being presented in Sydney. Only women are allowed at the matinees.. * * * Serious plays are the vogue in London at present. “Rope,” “The Infinite Shoeblack,” “The Sacred Flame” and “Journey’s End” are examples of this. * * * Contracts have been signed whereby Florenz Ziegfeld will open in October in a theatre now being constructed in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. “Rio Rita” will probably be the first of his own productions in that city.

With the hundredth performance to its credit in Sydney, “The Desert Song” has equalled the run of a number of the musical comedy successes of Williamson-Tait, Ltd. The records established first by “Our Miss Gibbs,” and then by “Rose Marie,” are now being pursued. * * * Tom Moore, husband of Gladys Moncrieff, who recently returned from abroad, has become a producer of plays. While in America he purchased the Commonwealth rights of several pieces, including a melodrama called “The Zeppelin Terror,” with which he will begin a season at the Palace Theatre, Melbourne, early in July. The cast will include Charles Roadknight, who appeared in Australia several years ago in the melodrama, “Bulldog Drummond,” by “Sapper.”