HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1941, 24 November 1906, Page 2

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE

The appearance of Mr Charles Vornor in the name part of tho sensational Irish melodrama “ Shamus O’Brien ” did not attract as full a house as the merit of his very excellent interpretation of it deserved. Mr Vernor came heralded with excellent notices from leading colonial journals, and everyone who saw him last night will admit that they did not flatter him in the least. Mr Vornor is an actor of high

ability and more than ordinary versatility, | and in Irish interpretation he is capable of raising his audience to the highest pitch of 1 merriment and bringing pathetic tears to ' their eyes in turn. There is no occasion i to detail the plot of so ancient a picco as • * Shamus O'Brien,” and it will therefore i suffice to say that nothing was missed in Mr Vernor’s pourtrayal of the hero of I ’98,• In the cast ho was ably supported by Miss May Bradley as Mary lionoughmore, 1 whose acting called forth frequent plaudits from the audienco, and by Miss Esdaille j as Mrs O’Brien, and Miss De Gray as the Hon. Kathleen O’Beilly. Mr T. E. Tilton sustained the part of Captain McMurro very creditably, and “ Shadrach O’Finn ” found an exponent in Mr R. J, Oswald, while Mr Richmond Roy was sufficiently demure as Father Malone. As Sir Reginald Dare Mr John Lambert acquitted himself well; but Colonel Claverly suffered the disabilities of a defective memory and a lack of military bearing. Larry was re presented by Mr Frank Davenport, and the Cockney butler (William Wilkins) by Mr A. Leonard, who played his part very well. Taken as a whole the Company is not a well balanced one ; but what is lacking in some, is more than compensated by Mr Vcrner, and one or two of his supporters. If anyone wauts a real good laugh wo ' can promise the company will supply ' ij in “Dublin Assurance” to-night, i