Show WIDOWS S MIGHT AT I IHA HA HAYMARKET IS BIG HIT BIG HIT London Finds New Comedy Witty Expose of the Graceful Feline Br Sr The S Newt ewe LONDON Dec 9 a cat re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked Lady Deborah of her bosom friend Mabel But a cat i is a 8 very very graceful animal And Widows Widow if Night Ute tile new comedy at the Ha Haymarket Haymarket Hay Hay- marl market et theatre is a witty expose of ot the graceful feline Lady Deborah Carstairs a wealthy widow who finds it is a blessed condition condition condition condi condi- tion to come into circulation again is a comfortable kind of cat Mabel her friend is a hysterical I selfish and foolish cat Poppy Mayn- Mayn ford is a cat who plays with her Mayn mouse ofa ota husband and alternately purrs antI and slows shows h her r claws Rebecca Gluckstein is quite as feline as the three aristocratic aristocratic aristo aristo- cratic cratie cats only only- in a cruder way As Asfor Asfor Asfor for the men Maj Gen Heathcote is as he himself feels a bit of a cad Teddy is all sorts of a fool and middle aged Joseph is an anold anold anold old fashioned comedy stupid husband The dialogue is witty and sparkling and the different degrees of of its women are cleverly defined by Miss 1 Ellis Jeffreys as the superb Lady I Deborah by Miss Athene Seyler as Mabel by Miss Nancy Price as an impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible fortune teller and by py Miss Marie Hemingway as 1 wife Houp Roup La with Miss 1 Gertie Gertle Miller George Graves and Nat Ayer in the principal parts is Mr 1 Cochrans Cochran's first production at London's newest theatre the St. St Martin Houp La Is not a re revue revue revue re- re vue but a musical comedy dealing with life lite in the circus If It only the builders and decorators would finish their work in time It should have been opened this week But But But- The Bing Boys Are Here but their days at the Alhambra are numbered not because the houses are falling off because every available seat is booked up until January when it is to tobe tobe tobe be withdrawn But George Robey has hasto hasto to quit then for other previously made engagements bend and there are other reasons reasons reasons rea rea- sons which will prevent the run continuing continuing con con- any longer Oswald Stoll however has now entered entered en en- into an agreement with Grossmith Grossmith Grossmith Gros- Gros smith Laurillard to supply the Alhambra Alhambra Alhambra Al Al- hambra with a series of revues extendIng extending extending extend extend- ing over several years The one to follow The Bing B Boys ys is practically I complete and will be called The Bing Bins Girls with Wilkie Wilkle Bard Joseph Coyne and Violet Loraine in the principal parts Wilkie will be one one of the girls I Hobsons Choice migrates to the Prince rince of Wales Vales next Monday and the following evening Andre Charlot Chariot in conjunction with Tom Davies begins I his season at the Apollo with the wor I less play A Pierrot's Christmas In Invented Invented invented inI in- I vented by Ferdinand Bessier Bessler with music music music mu mu- sic by Victor Monti 1 The story begins in hi 1825 then takes a leap of ten years and finishes in 1843 First you see Pierrot in his dining room room and thereafter thereafter thereafter there there- after in his garden a a. homely character charac charac- ter to be played by Norman McKinnel At the Prince of Wales Birmingham on Monday Robert p produces pro pro- o- o duces puces Capt Basil Hoods Hood's light opera Young England prior to its transfer to Dalys Daly's on Saturday December 23 Harry Dearth appears as Drake C. C Hadyn Coffin as John IJohn Herbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Cave as William Courtney Walter Walter Walter Wal Wal- ter Passmore and Ambrose Manning as respectively Tom Moon Mool and Sam Best Miss Doris Doria Woodall as Queen Elizabeta Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth beta and Miss Clara Butterworth as Betty Sydenham The prologue is to tobe tobe tobe I be spoken by 1 Miss Elaine e t. t A Little Bit of Fluff one of the I most successful farces of recent years year's reaches its performance at the Criterion tonight Fewer than n fifty fifty plays have been given five hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred consecutive performances on the London stage At the Coliseum thois week Miss Elliott Lady Forbes- Forbes Robertson has be been n reciting Oscar Wildes Wilde's fairy tale The Happy Prince set to special music played by the composer Mme Liza Lehmann |