ENTERTAINMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 5 March 1927, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"ELIZA GOMES TO STAY." "Eliza Comes to Stay," hut unfortunately for one night only, she comes to the Opera House next Wednesday, March 10. Miss Zillah Bateman,- who scored such a triumph 'in "The Unfair Setx" during the last visit of the English Comedv Company, is "Eliza" and the characterisation of the .■ part is bound to stay jn the memory of all those that see this hrilliant comedy. "Eliza Comes to Stay," is a play revealing in a striking manner the unconscious outlook of man to woman. Eliza in her old clothe^, straw eadie, elastic side boots, big specks, and "bunned" hair is a fright. but Dorothy, daintily, p'rettily .dressed, and with her flaxen hair coiled artistically ip most desirable. Miss Bateman is cast as an entirely new character, which she fills with credit, first as the uneducated, candid waif, and later as the spirited and graceful young lady. Frank Bradley could not be better cast than in the part of Montague Jordan, the hest friend of Verrall. Lady Pennybrook — :prim and early "Victofian, but a matchmaker for all that, is portrayed by Miss Henrietia Cavendish in a very capable manner. Miss Sylvia Clifton plays the part of Vera Lawrence, the actress, whose sole ambition is embraced by two words, "clothes" and "money." Norman Carter plays Alexander Stoop Verrall, Sandy's Uncle, in a fine upstanding manner. "Eliza Comes to Stay" is chock full of laughs and philosophy, and not without its moral. The box plans will open at the Bristol on Monday. v — — —