THEATRE
Over the Moon. Lyrics and music by Vivian Ellis and others. (Piccadilly.) NOTHING bovine about this 'twentieth-century Boadicea who carves her way through acres of undistinguished script and arrives happy and relatively glorious at the conclusion. Cicely Courtneidge, Peter Pannish in the extreme, takes a lunar leap into the familiar and ends up with the King's Horses, a combined skit on India and holiday camps, and a cameo of affected postmistresses C' Pass raight down the counter, please ") ; all of which are very amusing, but apt to give one the uncomfortable feeling that this is where we came in. Vivian Ellis is not to be accused of moving with the times. Such wit as there is is implied in the acting of Miss Courtneidge and not in the dialogue or lyrics of sketch and song which on the whole are as relevant as sedan chairs and about as slow. Apart from the versatile Thorley Walters, Miss Courtneidge stands magnificently alone in a desert of semi-competence. In fact, the little dog had
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