MISS TITTELL BRUNE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1875, 3 October 1906, Page 2

MISS TITTELL BRUNE.

This evening Miss Tittellßrune wil appear at His Majesty’s Theatre, supported by Mr Thomas Kingston and Mr J. C. Williamson’s powerful dramatic company. Mr Paul Kester’s adaptation of Charles Major’s popular novel “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall ” has been selected as the opening production of the season, and it is said to be full of good things. The plot turns upon the love between the hotheaded and hot-tempered daughter of the house of Vernon, and Sir John Manners, son of the Duke of Butland. The two families had long been at deadly enmity, and the acquaintance between the lovers began through an insolent jest of Manners, who, to anger Sir George Vernon, claimed the daughter’s hand in fulfilment of a twenty-two years’ pledge between the fathers that their children should wed. But what commenced in jest goes on in earnest, and the two young people find their course of true love beset with many difficulties, in the creation and demolition of which, the treachery of the lady’s cousin, who is her officially recognised suitor, is much concerned as also is the quarrel between Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, and the heroine’s now vigorous fits of temper. Miss Tittell Brune’s interpretation of the character of Dorothy Vernon, and those of Leah in “ Leah Kleschna,” Mary Ann and Sunday are said to be her greatest achievements since her arrival in Australasia. All these plays had excellent reputations when first staged in America and England, and their reception throughout Australia recently was coincident with their triumphs in London, In “ Dorothy Vernon ” Mr Thomas Kingston will appear as Sir Jobn M anners, and the other characters will be taken by Messrs Gaston Mervale, J. B. Atholwood, Vivian Edwards, T. W Lloyd, Maurice Dudley, Misses Susie Vaughan, Nellie Ferguson, Clara Stevenson, Nellie Calvin and Irby Marshall. Box plans for the whole season are now open at Mr W. Miller’s, and the booking indicates the desire of the public to see each of these notable productions, for Gisborne does not often afford such rich opportunities to those who appreciate the higher class of dramatic work