"GENTLE GERTRUDE."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 976, 17 November 1910, Page 6

"GENTLE GERTRUDE."

!T ■ - ... - i- A novel musical and dramatic - enter* k tainmcnt is .to be given in the' Sydney :e Street Schoolroom this evening,, in aid of 3' the funds of the Boys' Institute and the e Unitarian Church. The piece do resist- - ance of the evening will 'be a ■ nwsical " melodrama in one act, entitTed "Gentle t Gertrude,''or Drugged and Drowned in ■ l- Digbeth," a play.wSTch thrills even in if its merriest moments. That it will ba s. artistically presented is well assured, : seej, ing that the characters are to be played i. by. Miss. Jessie Newton, Mrs. Dr. Fell, n Mr. Morris Fox, and Miv Alec. .Newton. . 'S all talented amateurs too seldom seen on . h the stage. In addition to the melodrama iv a quartet will ■sing "The World is but !'. i- Broken Toy," from Gilbert and Sulli- : n van's charming opera "Princess Ida"; an d orchestra, under Miss Grace Kennedy, . s- will play a selection of airs from "Doro; s- thy," and Norman O'Neil's w-altz, written ' n for Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird," and items ig will be contributed by Miss Lloyd-Has-. «r sell, Mrs. B. M." Wilson, and Messrs. R. 1- T. Robertson, and A. C. C. Stephens. • 's The entertainment will be repeated to- '» morrow evening. " n