THE THEATRE
(By "Sylvius.") ■ j
"Pep," at the Town Hall. j Tko next professional atU'action /«'' i ' Wellington will be .1 welcome ou«. : 'il U .Messrs. .1. ami '.V. Tail's Comedy CiKi- : puny, lira<lcil by .MUs Sara All«ond, in"Peg u' -My Henri." tin? delightful cqui- ' oily by Mr.. J. .Hartley' Manners which I has never failed to attract bit; suidii enet'3 wherever it lias -been played. Ow--1 ing to M'rssrs. J-. C. Williamsou, Ltd.,' i beui;: unable to find dales (or Ike sue- • ccAfiil "l.'iiit attruction, the management lia-s bceV compelled to book the. Totvn . I Hall. Thanks to foresight,- arrange- ! incuts iiavc been completed to erect a ' j proscenium and bring tho siago well ' i forward, so-Hint (hero will bo no.doubt ( I us toeveryone Jiyiiring lyud feeing the ; ' performance quite- comfortably. This : will be the first occasion on which the . Town Hall .has been utilised by. n. pro- . j feseitmnl comedy company, and tho nov--1 city of witnessing the. nrt of Sara AH- | I good in the. fascinating role of Peg will ! I have its attractions for many thousands ■ of her admirers in Wellington. Tho sea- . eon will coinmo-nco on.Saturday,• Noveni-\ ber IS, and'will extend for a week. '' '; Niagara in a Revue. ' ! The wonderful representation of the ; I Niagara Falls arouses amazement of tho j I audience at the ,T. C. Williamson revue, ; j'"Hello, Everybody!" at Her Majesty's, ' ' i Melbourne. Everyone, wanted to know ' ! how'it Was done, so realistic was the on- : j rush of the water over the. falls, the roar : ! of tlie miality cataract, and' the clouds I I of spray "thai" arose being a revelation in i I stage ■mechanism.'- It was a wonderful ! 1 spectacle, and.' the tremendous _ applause. | i indicated that the audience realised what ; I a marvellous stage.achievement tho'scenerepresented, '•■■■. ! •: ■• . ' ■ —: ■ -. .-•■•■ J "Doctor's Dilemma." ■ j ■ J. and N. Tail's' forthcoming produc- ! tion of Bernard Shaw's • "Doctor's i Dilemma"'at tlie Palac'o Theatre, Sydney, i , : - i promises to .bo. a great., giiccees. lie- j lioarsais, which liave been carefully car- ■ ' riixl on for somo time under tho super- ' . ! vision of Gresan. Sl'iMahpn. have been : remarkai>ly satisfactory, and there is every guarantee of tho artistic ■ reprcseii- , tation. which a dramatist of Shaw's un- ; doubted genius deserves. J.. and !N T . Tait believe that they liavo secured an.almost': perfect. • oast for tho performance. . nnd , when ono considers that if includes euch artists as .A. E. Grcenaway, Eardley I j Turner, 6. K\ Souper, and", Grcgan ; I Jl'Mahou u is difficult to see. how. it : could lie bettered. . These four brilliant : ! character actors will be seen in tho roles j of .the doctors whose prejudices are- so ■ piquaiilly photograplietl by the dramatist. : For the 'jiart'bf the irresponsible genius, i .. Louis Dubedat, Raymond Lawrence is an i excellent selection, while Olivo Wilton ! will be found worthy enough to picture ! the sweetness and lovableness of his wife Jennifer. - ,' "Press the Button." The new play by , Robert Hitchens, : "Press the Bntlon," which has just been . produced in tho Globe Theatre, London, |. is wild mechanical farce.. Tho "Daily | I Telegraph" says, of it:—,. . j , '/'The scheme of things is that Lord and ; Lady Anthony Fitzurse were the .quiver- I i'lijj slaves of their masterful butler. A good notion .that, either for farce or for'j comedy Hut, having sketched it, Mr. | ; lliteheiis turned to tho tricksy, furnitnre. i v La'dy Anthony had heard of a- wonderful | man who installed mechanical devices j which made servants superfluous. You j pressed tho button and machinery made i your bed and served your dinner. When | the curtain went uj) next ,tho once re- ; splendent drawingroom contained both' j bod and dining-table. Another good no- | tion v<l3 an ex-Queen of the Paradise Islands/with Mi3s Lottie Venue to,play j her, anil in ■ her llig-hty majesty.-be! captivated by the butler, -Allan Aynes-'; , worth, ili a miracle of a make-up. _ That j • miglit have been very droll, and indeed i ■ what there wa9 of it was excellent, but it never developed itself. ■ Tho furniture ; hold the stage. Everything, as you an- ! ticipate, went" wrong. Lady Anthony j was lowered to ,the kitchen, the ex-Queen < was rolica .out of bed, and finally every- ' body was horribly maltreated on a- me- j ; I c-hniiicai Rpring-cleiuiing.. For a.last.r.ct i' i Lady Anthony.'and-..tlie Queen- and. tlie ~■ butler a(l—in circumstances of perfect re- ; themselves in bed to-,: gether, anil the inventor was arrested for i stealing the drawingrooin pictures, and , ■ the Queen went back to her Paradise i Islands, and Lord and Lady Anthony' re- '■ eiimdd existence-under the butler rule. i Miss Jlarie Lobr's company played the farce m the mildest of ejiir'its.. Mr. . Ayneswortli.aud Miss Lottie. Venne were successful in leading parts. ! At Drury Lane Theatre in the autumn ; there will' be a new spectacular naval ; play 15y llcary Haiuilton and George R. Sink ■ "The Knife" has been transferred from . the Comedy, to Ilia. Queen's Theatre, : where, it replaces "General Post." . I Hall Caine's ".The l'riiub .Minister" has ! already ended its career at the Royal j : Theatre. ;
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