WOODS-WILLIAMSON COY

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1378, 13 February 1905, Page 2

WOODS-WILLIAMSON COY

“ THE GARDEN OF LIES.” The box plans for the Woods-William son season will be opened at Miller’s corner'at 10 this morning, when no doubt there will be a keen demand for seats for the thrue 5- productions. The season will be inaugurated at His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday evening, when the management wilL present the latest London dramatic success, “ The Garden of Lies.” The story of book will be familiar to many. Dennis Mallory, a reckless art student in Paris, is persuaded to undertake the impersonating of the Prince of Novidnia in order to savo the reason of Eleanor, princess of that locality, who has lost her memory, and ha playßthe part to her so well that,belie’ving him to be her husband,she falls desperately in lovewith him ; he finds himself no better off with respect to the lady, so that when the real and long delayed prince and husband appears on the scene there is an u nmasking of the hero and trouble all round. Readers of this book will also remember that in the end the real prince makes a graceful exit when ho dies fighting for his insecure sovereignty, and the -princess has a forgiving nature, and D enis and his follow conspirators faro bettur in the end than they perhaps deserve. The story of course, as well as the dramatic version, j carries with it the regeneration of the hero in respect to those qualitj os that had led him to undertake so del ioate a mission. On Thursday, the sccorid night of the season, the Company whll appear in that j immensely popular farchal comedy, “ My I Wife’s Mother,” and or 1 Friday, the last I night of the season, Hold Caine’s greatest I suocess, “ The Christ! an,” will be pre- I sented. I