The White Sheep of the Family." By L. du Garde
Peach and Ian Hay. (Piccadilly.) THIS is rather like one of these awfully amusing ideas that are always turning up in Punch. What fun to have a nice family, father a churchwarden and all that, on good terms with the right people, living among the respectable with a fine front of conformity, but feeling nevertheless the shame of mingling with the " public "—for every member of the family is a master- or mistress-crook ! And then to have the son fly off the rails and decide to go straight because he actually wants to marry into the public! What a shock for father ! What a blow for mother ! The boy, wants to marry the daughter of the Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard ! What disgrace ! Happily in the end the Commissioner's daughter turns out to—well, guess—and decency is restored. The son can once more " forge ahead " as the dear old bumbling vicar says. It is agreeable mild entertainment, and, if one can see what is coming a long way off, there is compensation in the deadpan playing of Jack Hulbert as burglar-churchwarden and the endearing comic antics of Denys Blakelock as the vicar.
LAIN HAMILTON.
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