ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PLAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PLAY

"A MAN WITH RED HAIR” Another alay that has lately appeared in New York with success js ”A Man With Red Hair,” written by Lenu Levy un a basis of Hugh Waipole’s novel. It is primarily a study of a madman, the form of whose maciness is a lust for the infliction of pain. It. is not, i i the theatre, a pleasant subject. ‘rhe madman traps two men and a girl in his house, and the play i s the history Of their mental and physical suffering, of the torturer's insane joy, and of his death at the hands of one of the men, whom the girl contrives to release from his bonds. If it were performed simply as sensational melodrama it would not be oO good a play, but it would certainly be easier to endure. As it is. Charles Laughton plays the part of the madman with so much subtlety and imagination that he is alive, anil you believe in h'm. A’ou are compelled, then, ro spend an evening in the company of a sadistic lunatic, and if you possess either nerves of iron or no imagination at all you may perhaps enjoy the experience, says a New York critic.