ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 42, 13 November 1919, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

"THE SILVER KING." Tho Allan Wilkio company has all tho elements of a sound stock company, and probably no other melodrama, is calcuIdled lo display it like "The Silver King," which abounds in good parts. Ono of tlio wts of gODil play-writing is to mako even the smallest parts interesting,', am! Henry Arthur .Tones fihows it to perfection in "Tlio Silver King," for after one lias disposed of Wilfred Denver and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. ."Spidi-r," Jaikcs, and Cooinbes, there is a wealth of minor parts, each capable of development by tho skilful. For instance, Miss JToleu Fergus shows experience and art as Tabitha Burden, and tlio Tipsy Passenger (in the railway station fcenc) is most amusingly played by Mr. Fnlix Bkiml. Mr. Wilkie's "Silver King" is a trifle on the heavy side, but quite a 6Ound, and even a moving characterisation, throughout. NellieDenver is of tho order of tear-stained heroines, and Miss Predyswide HunterAValls is ono of the best exponents of the part seen in Wellington. On Saturday next, the company is to appear in "Hindle Wakes," to which tho management, presumably by way of explanation, has given the auxiliary titlp, "Fanny's Saturday to Monday," which scarcely conveys tlio idea of the "Wakes," tho annual week's holiday enjoyed by tho fao.tory towns of Lancashire, Hindle iwing the namo of one of them. This play of Stanley Houghton's is n very human document, which deals with a rather delicate subject "with the ulovos off" It was as Fanny in "Hindle Wai;e3" that Miss Emelie Polini mndo her first nppenrancs in America- Almost every character has to epeak vnth a Lancashire dialect.