COMEDY SUCCESSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 18

COMEDY SUCCESSES

“PIGS” FOLLOWS “LAUGH THAT OFF” "Laugh That Off,” the J. C. Williamson Company’s second comedy success at His Majesty’s is being presented at a matinee this afternoon and will pursue its attractive course this evening and on Monday. On Tuesday the company will present "Pigs” for the first of two evening performances and one matinee. This created something approaching a furore in Melbourne. “Pigs” is all about the determination of young Thomas Atkins, known to the members of his family and intimate friends as Junior, to bring off a deal in pigs. Junior has a fla.ir for neighbours’ goats, cows and other animals. The pigs he wants to buy are supposed to have cholera, but Junior is sure they are healthy, and that by buying them as sick pigs he can resell them as porkers at a profit of 500 per cent. His father, whose finances are at a low ebb, can’t lend him the 200 dollars for the purchase—in which he doesn’t believe, in fact —so Mildred, Junior’s fiancee, who has more imagination, takes a hand in the loan-floating business. The pigs, which apepar in the production, are eventally bought and the reselling of them enables Junior to hand father a cheque for 2,500 dollars. Mr. Alan Bunce and Miss Ruth Nugent are said to be thoroughlv at home in “Pigs,” a comedy in which they appeared very successfully in America. The other artists who have been appearing successfully during the present season are also in the cast of “Pigs.” The season will close on Wednesday night.