Greenroom Gossip.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1073, 29 September 1910, Page 17

Greenroom Gossip.

Fred. Graham’s English Comedy Co. Mr. Fred- Graham and his company of English comedians have been experiencing a great time in the Scotch capital of the Dominion (Dunedin), and I gather from various sources that “ The Brixton Burglary,” which they are presenting to delighted audiences in the South is brimful of fun and simply irresistible in its comical situations. The sober “ Otago Daily Times” says that it is irresistibly funny, and speaks of its “ amusing predicaments, embarrassing situations, tight fixes and grotesquely funny positions,” as “ carrying the audience along in roars of laughter from start to finish.” The “ Evening Star” speaks of it as “ the best comedy we have ever seen,” and says: " The ‘ Brixton Burglary’ struck squarely in the bull’s-eye of a very large audience’s approval. The tide of laughter,” it adds, “ never ebbed.

Fred. Graham as Reginald Pontifex was an unqualified success—he has the knack of making the audience laugh with him.” . : . ;

The Comedy “ Held Up.” Says the “Otago Witness” speakof the same play: “The popularity of Mr. Fred Graham, the comedian, was clearly exemplified at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday evening, when a

crowded house welcomed his reapdelightfully refreshing in its spontaneity. The action of the comedy was ‘held up’ until the artist bowed his acknowledgements. The other membersof the Fred Graham Company were also welcomed by the enthusiastic audience, special enthusiasm being displayed on the appearance of Mr. J. Brennan, the young pearance with a reception which was

Dunedin actor, who is a member of the Fred Graham Comedy Company?’ **- ♦ ' « The Auckland Season* . “The Brixton Burglary” will strike Auckland at the end of October, and we feel sure that Mr. Graham will. meet with an even warmer -welcome in the Northern capital, than he. has experienced in the South. 1 Comedy of the stamp he is presenting is always grateful and refreshing to playgoers.

Love in Clerical Clothing. The writer of “Stage, Song and Show” notes in the Sydney “Sunday Sun,’ says:—After “Lovers’ Lane,” with its neat alliteration, no doubt the play-writers will bethink themselves of titles such as “Romancers’ Road” and “ Flirters’ Field.” Of course these names would be for use only in connection with some unblushing burr lesque. Love is so sacred a thing that to “ poke borax” at it would be a crime against the Throne and Person of His Majesty King Cupid. Love in clerical clothing should be doubly holy, otherwise one were tempted to write a parody on the Rev. Thomas Singleton-Plimmer’s delightful character in “Lovers’ Lane'.” Meantime, for those who have not seen “the sweetest story ever told” at the Theatre Royal, only five more nights remain in which to see it, as next Saturday the liquid notes of Bel Sorel will replace the drifting apple-blossoms of Simplicity’s favourite tree. By the way, a special word in praise of the clever designer and builder of the famous' “tree,” which all through the piece buds and blossoms and fruits so naturally that the audienqe seems to regard it as a real tree. The property master, Mr. James Burns, is the man that we honour.