GLOOM PROOF
New Traver’s Farce FIFTH ALDWYCH SUCCESS “A Cup of Kindness,” the fifth farce by Ben Travers for the Tom WallsRalph Lynn partnership, at the Aldwych Theatre, London, is as gloomproof as its predecessors. It is no use trying to be critical when someone is tickling you. You may as well submit and be thankful for an occasional respite. The fun wilts in cold print. On the stage it is irresistible, as undefinable as the story about share-pushing, a marriage, a family feud, and an ingeniously contrived reconciliation to the wireless strains of “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve. Ralph Lynn is the innocent sharepusher and fatuous bridegroom; Tom Walls and Mary Brough his irascible parents; J. Robertson Hare, with his baldness, and Kenneth Kove, superbly vacuous, are there to be laughed at in Ben Travers’s ben trovato, says a London daily.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 8
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144GLOOM PROOF Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 8
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