A GREAT PRODUCER TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 12, 1 June 1925, Page 54

A GREAT PRODUCER TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

M R LEON M. LION, the London producer who was responsible for the early success of Galsworthy, Ibsen and Maeterlinck plays in the West End, announces his intention of visiting New Zealand late in the year with an English company. Mr. Lion’s season in Africa has been a tremendous success. There has been a public appeal through the newspapers that he should make a second tour of the Union before

returning to England. His plays, “The Chinese Puzzle,”. “The Mask and the Face,” and “Outward Bound” have all enjoyed prolonged seasons in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and in both places he has put up a record. When it is remembered that he has only ninety thousand people to draw from for his audiences in Johannesburg, the fact that sixty thousand six hundred and sixtytwo people saw him play will give some idea of the interest displayed by South Africans in the theatre.