East Lynne

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 103, 9 February 1886, Page 3

East Lynne

On Saturday night in Public Hall, Miss Eloise Juno and her talented company produced the well known and favorite emotional drama of " East Lynne." As is generally the ■case here when a really good piece is well put on the stage a large and appreciative audience greeted the players. The piece is too well known ior us to give any details of its plot. Our business only lies in commenting on the several performers and the manner in which they acted their parts. Miss Juno as Lady Isabel and Madame Vine was excellent. Her Tepresentationsof the passionate scenes at the end were intense in their emo- • "fcional power. We observed the tears trickling down the cheeks of old men and maids unrestrained, so much were they carried away with sympathetic feelings excited by her grand acting. Even the youthful larrikins were calmed into listening wonder at scenes ■which, though they but dimly compreiended their meaning, taught that there was a sanctity in great sorrow and remorse in a life which was as yet "beyond their ken. She was well supported by Miss Ella Carrington as Barbara Hare, who is a careful and clever artiste, who neglects nothing to make her part interesting. It must l)e remembered that Barbara Hare is a difficult character to make popular, because the audience can scarcely sympathise with the woman who so xapidly succeeds Lady Isabel as the wife of Mr Carlyle. Miss Carrington succeeded, however, in keeping her hearers with her. Miss Nellie Edwards as Joyce was excellent, and although she had only a minor part to play she ■did it well and pleasingly. Miss Lilly Hill as Miss Conny Carlyle was very olever, in fact she was the most delightful "Advocate of Woman's Uights" we have yet seen. Miss Hattie Hays, as Lady Isabel's child, showed that she has talent which promises great things for the future. The gentlemen of the company were all good in their several parts. Mr Nunn, as Mr Carlyle, was excellent and snowed he had carefully studied the character he had to reproduce. Mr Taylor as Captain Levison was * 'to the manner born" a roue, and acted "the villian" creditably, only we could not see the necessity for the " gagging" he occasionally indulged in. Mr Wilson Forbes as Lord Mount Severn was good, but a little " preachy" sometimes, or possibly this impression was given by the somewhat clerical cut of his lordship's dressing for the part. Otherwise he acted with dignity and proper reserve. His grand diction was especially noticeable and gratifying to listen to. Mr Dill was well represented ty Mr E. W." Rogers. Mr D unbar, as Richard Hare, made the most of what he had to do, and the same may be said of the other minor characters ■fHH by Messrs Horton, Hcnninghan^ Evans. Altogether we can say' without fear of contradiction, this is the best company which has } r et appeared on the Feilding stage. At the conclusion of " East Lynno" the laughable musical comedy of "Barney's Luck" was pro-luced by Miss Ella Carrington and Mr C. H. Taylor (the author). This was immensely funny, and kept the people in roars of laughter from beginning to the end. On their return from Wanganui — in about a fortnight's time — the company will produce, with appropriate scenery, the popular Irish drama " Cou the Shaughran." After playing at Palmerston the company will appear a^ain in Feilding in the dramatis ?d version of Conway's powerful and popular work "Called Back." Crowded houoos may safely be predicted on both occasions.