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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 8

The plan of s.inipte and transparent "Muft , " preseijted , in the interview with an. aotor-itiaiKifeer as to the liicrtts of lias own foittcomitfK flrodnetioii, arigSnally iuvanted: in KeTi/Yerk, flourishes jifiwliero more luxuriantly tlian in tondcni. la this ray Sir Herbert Tree has tfuitij. cariclidly infdtmed tho loadfej* papers that "Tiro Darliiig of tiro Gods" is naUy "oiio of the finest d:ramas lie ever staged in his iifo," Fortunately the. pieturesaito.- Japanese, melodrama by David Beliisei) and Luther Loud was favourably rtfioived on itis revival <?ii January 1.8. ! Many people will have soiiio teeolleotio.ri of Uhs New XeAlaud firddueti'eil equipped by Two a decade ago, with Clyde Moy-HO-il ill charge, Mr. H. Plim.nter and Miiud Jeffries »s Ksifa and the lwroinft, Mid Julius Knight as the terrible SSali.kuri. Tlio Jast-iiamcd is Tree's anginal character, which lie now plays, according to the Tall Mall Giusefcte," "o» coiiiie ratiictf than on sinister lilies." Miss Jlaiie. Lfllw was tlio Yo-Sari, "ntjreeabio is usual ii! her scones of pretty loVe-ma'kiiij;, but lacking tho toii-sio personality lrcoessary .for t3io woifihtfer episofe." Wf. Geargo Belph, wiio wits out hpro with Oscar Asclio in IStffl, playing swmll 'parts, is highly praised as tlio hero. The spoctaciilw scenes, fFo?n iho torture chamljora, beloliTßg. flaiiieaaviil .smoke, to the visi.mi of tW lovms united after a thousand j-eai-g in the <rloM<J.y region of the Land A were all heautiMy put on.