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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1589, 7 October 1920, Page 30

A novelty in the shape of an allJapanese picture with Sessue Hayakawa starred is “The Dragon Painter.” Every member of the cast is a Jap and the atmosphere is entirely Japanese. . Beautifully produced, it is a poem of a picture, and shows the Japanese star at his best.

Connie Tahnadge in her first National, “A Virtuous Vamp,” is responsible for not one triangle, but a score of them. It’s just spicy enough to be audacious, but has the necessary delicacy to provide exquisite entertainment.

Playgoers throughout Australia to whom the name of Howard Vernon is familiar will be interested to know that J. C- Williamson Ltd. have arranged for a Benefit Matinee to be tendered him at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne. It is appropriate that the recognition of Mr. Vernon’s brilliant and memorable work extending over many years on the Australian stage should take place during the present season of Gilbert and Sullivan Opera at Her Majesty’s, for it. was in this play that the veteran made himself world-famous. “The Mikado” will be played at the benefit matinee, with Mr. Howard Vernon as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. According to present arrangements, the date will be Thursday afternoon, October 21.