THE WILLOUGHBY COMPANY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16228, 26 March 1917, Page 3

THE WILLOUGHBY COMPANY.

"WHAT HAPPENED. TO ?JONES." , To-morrow, George Willough'by and his new. musical farce company will commence a two Might's .season in the Theatre Boya-1.; The'opening will be Geoi-ge Broadhurst's famous comedyfarce "What Happened to Jones," to bo followed by another equally funny farce "Why Smith Left Home." A feature of both productions will be the latest musioal items and dances. Principals of the company who are prominent. in the musical portions of the productions are Messrs George Willonghby and Albert, the Misses June Addell, Edna. Sea-ton, and FJorrie Fanning. Mr AYilltjugJhby has searched the English and American musical markets and has secured the lattst song hits and novelties. Speaking of the production the Melbourne "Argus" makes the followi|hg remarks: —-What Happened to Jones' was played with all the bnskn.ess which is,-its due, and Mr Willoughby especially was dexterous in action and perception, when Jones was faced with the necessity of masquerading in the unfamiliar 'habiliments of a clergyman. The scene,, in whjich he was first hailed-by the proressor's, excited wife and her daughters aS Dr. Goodly, and promptly dropped his manner of .giddy levity for that of a grave, serious-minded cleric, who offered sound advice in weighty and .dignified tones, was extremely !%igfiable. How tlio real Dr. Goodly arrives at last, hails Jones as a brother of th© cloth, and is immediately shut up in his room by that resourceful personage and the pseudo-valet, and deprived of his clothes, so that, wishing to gain somo explanation of these remarkable happenings, lie comes downstairs robed -in a. blanket, searching fcr .his'hrofcher, the Professor, only to be "mistaken by the members of the household-for a lunatic whoso escape from a ing sanatorium Jias, jiist been made 'known to them is a wnli-remeinbered situation]', which ■provoked . roars of laughter." lit is a race', between""Why Honie" and the . above 'farce which is the funnier and \ those who have seenr;hoth:;in .the pastJare tinable to' separatethem. The .box plains for the season Vre now open at' the Bristol. ,