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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 26

June Elvidge, who toured New ZeaZealand with Pauline Frederick in “Spring Cleaning,” is notv a buyer tor a big New York department store. * * $ Elsie Prince is returning to Australia to play the lead in “Mr. Cinders,” under the.J.C.W. banner. Reita Nugent, an Australian dancer, who has done well in England and on the Continent, is also returning for the same production. Margaret Bannerman is playing lead in a revival of Edgar Wallace’s racing play, “The Calendar,” in London. Others in the cast are Dora Lennox, Garry Marsh, Frafcklyn Bellamy, and Alfred Drayton.

A play written by a convict, and performed by other convicts for the amusement of their fellow-prisoners, was a feature of an entertainment given lately at the Camp Hill Preventive Detention Prison, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. It was cahed “Misery Farm,” and was an amusing burlesque of life and work in a prison.

A brilliant cast was assembled for the all-star matinees of “Hamlet,” presented at the London Haymarket as a Shakespeare birthday celebration.

Here is the brilliant assembly of stars, and the parts they played: Claudius Malcolm Keen Hamlet Henry Ainley Tloratio Godfrey Tearle. Polonius Herbert Waring. Laertes Colin Clive Rosencrantz Henry Hewitt. Guildensterr .. .. Patrick Wadding-ton. Osrick Ernest Thesiger A Priest H. R. Hignett. Marcellas Tristan Rawson Rarnardo Reginald Smith. Francisco C. M. Hallard Ghost of Hamlet's Father —Baliol Holloway Fortinbras Austin Trevor. First Player Robert Spen.ight Second Player . . . . Leonard Shepherd. Player Queen Margaretta Scott. First Gravedigger . . Cedric Hardwicke. Second Gravedigger . . Richard Goolden. Gertrude Irene Vanbrugh Ophelia . . . . Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.