THE DIARY OF A NOBODY. By George and Weedon Grossmith.
(Duchess.) — Tln REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER. By Liam O'Brien. (New.) THIS week's theatre brings us two comedies, one of which we had already seen at the Arts. There The Diary of a Nobody adapted for the stage was an agreeable, rather mild trifle calcu- lated to bring sneers to the lips of a sophisti- cated audience. At the Duchess on a larger stage and with Leslie Henson and Hermionc Baddeley playing the lead parts it was much less successful. Mr. Henson and Miss Baddelcy are too emphatically comic performers for so delicate a piece of work. They did their best, of course, but it was hardly enough. At, the New there is one of those whimseys about bigamy in which the American stage rejoices. Mr. Pennypacker, engagingly played by Nigel Patrick, is in the habit of keeping up two households and, moreover, of producing seven children in each. Needless to say he is found out and there is one awful scene where the kids judge him to the accompaniment of a good deal of sentiment. Apart from this, the play pro- vides a fair evening's amusement, and the whole imbroglio ends with virtue triumphant and the moral values vindicated, not to men- tion the sanctity of the average American home. I should explain, in case anyone wonders what there is to object to in bigamy in the first place, that it all occurs in the dim.
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