“My Wife's Lodger." By Dominic Roche. (Comedy.) A WEEK before
this farce opened, another farce had been howled to death in the same theatre by a derisive audience. The players must surely have been twitching before the curtain rose. But all went' well, and the audience justly decided to he amused by the provincial humours of the piece. It is a domestic comedy rather than farce, and it is concerned with the returned soldier who finds a plump lodger in possession of his little home in a Lancashire back street: a stable subject—and a triumphant conclusion, with lodger ousted, wife subdued and the dim-witted veteran become lord of all. Mr. Roche, who takes the lead himself, treats London to some hilariously broad playing in the Northern manner, and on the whole he is well supportaçl in the same key by players unknown in the West End. It comes like a breath of beer and brine wafted from the Lancashire
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