Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Monday 8 June 1936, page 19


'THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD'

Gilbert and Sullivan Season

Lovers of Gilbert and suinvan operas to-night will have the pleasure of enjoying the presentation of 'The Yeomen of the Guard,' a musical and dramatic triumph of that clever combination at His Majesty's TheatreThe plot of 'the story of the merryman and his maid,' as the sub-title states, is well known to theatregoers, and rises above the plane of comic opera in the tense situations and historic settings. Ivan Menzies gives one of his best characterisations as Jack Point, the jester. Winifred Lawson will appear as Elsie Maynard, Godfrey Stirling as Colonel Fairfax, Gregory Stroud as Sir Richard Cholomdeley, Richard Watson as V/ilfred Shadbolt, Bernard Manning as Sergeant Meryll, Evelyn Hall as Dame Carruthers, Eileen Kelly as Phoebe,, and Helen Langton as Kate. 'The Yeomen' will be played for three nights with a matinee next Wednesday.