20 MARCH 1926, Page 12

_KAISER • AGAIN "FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT," BY GEORG KAISER.

REGENT THEATRE.

SOME weeks ago, in dealing at length in these columns with this remarkable pathological play, I suggested that Mr. Claude Rains, our most brilliant actor, would be suited to the part of the defaulting cashier, and now here he is in the flesh giving the astonishing performance I foretold. If you want an exciting evening, get you quickly to the Euston Road to see him. I say " him " advisedly, for never can there have been a play which is so much a one man show. I am bound to say that on a second visit I found its black pessimism and brutal symbolism almost unbearable. But Mr. Rains is tremendous. " Kolossal " I heard a German visitor say on the way out, and there you have it.

E. S. A.