AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18790, 26 May 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

SCANDAL. ' REALISTIC AND DARING. Adapted from the novel by Cosmo I Hamilton, a brother by the way tb the well known war correspondent. Sir Phillip Gibbs, Scandal is a comi edy that has created discussion in all parts of the English-speaking world/ Virile with a strength of realism in its plot, dialogues and situations, it is free from the nasty vulgarisms and cheap suggestiveness of much' that is presented for the entertainment of theatre-goers. In Miss Doris Duane, who plays lead in the forthcoming presentation, Wanganui will have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a young actress whose dramatic abilities are of rare quality and whose fitness for the difficult role in which she is cast havebeen recognised by press and public' wherever she "has played. Scandal has aroused much controversy in Sydney and the four New Zealand towns in which it lias Veen played. Nothing is so romantic as scandal, according to our playwrights, occurs in the lives of those whose hearts' have never throbbed beneath the polished surface of that insignia of birth and breeding, the boiled shirt. The story of the play develops from this incident: Beatrice Vanderdyke, an American heiress, goes to the studio of an artist after his working hours —a thing that no girl brought up under “the best conventions" would ever do. The young heiress rises to the occasion, announcing to her relatives as they come in that she really came to see the man who lives in the apartment opposite, a very rich young man who spends bis time in hunting big game or riding around in his private yacht. He plays the dutiful husband before the family and although he doesn’t care for her really, in the end both he and Beatrice find that they are mad about one another. Mr. Eric Harrison. playing the lead to Doris Duane in “Scandal,” is noted for other accomplishments than those of the stage. Mr. Harrison has been associated with some of the most famous English comedy dramas, “Three Weeks,” “The Merry Widow,” and many others of equal note. He is cast here as Pelham Franklyn, the charming lover —the rich man living over the road and it is with him that Doris Duane is concerned in the famous “bedroom scene” of "Scandal." The box plan opens at H. I. Jones’ on Monday. A meeting of great interest to all who sympathise with human suffering and the effort to ameliorate it is to be held in St. Paul's Hall on Monday night at 7.45, when a lecture illustrated by 80 lantern views and entitled "The S.O.S. of the Leper” will be given by Rev. W. J. Eddy, of Australia. The chairman will be Rev. A. O. Williams, and a collection will be taken on behalf of the worldwide mission to lepers.