"DAVID GRRICK"

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 7

"DAVID GRRICK"

BY THE BUOKLER-PAGET COM-' '• ■ "•' ~;■-. pany,, /'.,-. /~. ■-.■ -~_ Garrick," a comedy in three aots by Tom Robertson. Cast— ,'>. Ada- Ingot :..' !..:...'..: Violet Pagot Simon Ingot „ Gerald Kfty Soupor Dav;d Garrick Hugh Buckler Thomas- Wilson Forbes Squire' CMvey .' Frank Neil' Mr. Smith Arthur Cornell . Mrs. Bmith : Tempe Piggot Mr. Brown .„ ; Charles LawTenco Mfee :Araminta Brown Lilian Lloyd Mr. Jonea Frederic Hughes George -.....:...' ~. Kingston- Hewitt ■. iThe Buckler-Pa'got Company has in the most legitimate.' manner ~ possible steadily ingratiated itself intothe favour of Wellington audiences. Last: evening this capable little company presented an old favourite in Tom Robertson's "comedy, "David Garrick," a' play that 13 perhaps unknown to the.younger generation of theatre-goers, but one that was some thirty dr, forty years ago a favoured bill with many leading actors. Mostly everypne knows the story of old. Simon Ingot's ruse to cure his daughter Ada of her infatuation for a popular actor; of the latter's -.agreement to cure her by simulating drunkenness, before he knows thatthe lady is the one for whom he has conceived a passion, and the romantic sequel. Tho comedy was adequately presented. Mr. Buckler out a picturesque figure as David Garrick, and acted with that reserve and manly,charm which haw ele-. vated him to a high place in :the. esteem of.local theatre-goers. . Miss:' Violet Paget languished, very prettily as Ada Ingot; Mr. .Kay Souper gave a sound' performance as Simon Ingot, but the. farcical coterie represented;' by 1 the; Browns and the Smiths wore scarcely the kind of people the dignified old .merchant and his talented and Tefinod daughter -would associate Mr. Prank Neil was only fairly satisfactory, -as Dick phivey. 'The comedy was well mounted,' and. appropriately dressed. "David Garrick" was preceded by the 'curtain-raiser, "The Man in the Street," in which Mr. Buckler gave evidence of his capacity for character work as ■ a battered old derelict from the backwash of London. The other characters were played by Mr. Kenneth Brampton and: Miss Eileen Robinson.

"The Great Adventure," a whimsical comedy, as it. is described, by Arnold Bennett, which has Tiad large success in London, will be produced by the Buok-ler-Paget Company at the Grand Opera House to-night. This makes the third play now to Wellington presented during their short season, and seeing how widely Arnold Bennett is read, it is likely to be witnessed by another large and representative a.udienoe. : In book form. "The Great Adventure" was published under the title of "Buried Alive," and is still one of .the most read, stories of that, popular author.