"THE WHIP."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 7

"THE WHIP."

On Thursday Jiext tho first performance in Wellington of the famous Drury Lane drama. "Tho Whip" will bo given by Mr. J. C. Williamson's New London Company. In consequence of the length of the play, tho curtain will rise on tho first act at ten minutes to 8, tho overture commencing five minutes earlier. Tho cast will include many artists new to Wellington playgoers. Messrs. Lionel Atwill. Charles Blackall, Charles Graham, Robert Bottomley, and Ambrose Manning. Also Misses Evelyn Kerry, Winifred Scott, Fyfe Alexander, and Cecilia Wilman will be seen for tho first time in New Zealand. Besides these, who are all artists of reputation in the Old 1 Country, there will also bo found in tho cast many who aro favourites with a Wellington audienco— Miss Gcorgie O'Meara, Miss May Carey, and Miss Emma Toniple have individually important parts. The play is accredited with being most gorgeously appointed. Many big scenes are promised, notably: The Royal Olympia Horso Show, "the Chamber of Horrors at Madam Tussaud's, the great railway disaster, and the crowning sensation or the race for tho 2000 Guineas, with real racehorses. The play will be staged under tho direction of Mr. J. W. Hazlitt, with Mr. Maurice Dudley as assistant. The' box plans for tho first six nights will be open at the Dresden on Monday next at 9 o clock. Intending country patrons, or those living out of Wellington, can have seats reserved on application by letter to the Dresden, enclosing cash equivalent, surt seats to be allotted in rotation as letters aro received.