JULIUS KNIGHT

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2132, 15 July 1907, Page 2

JULIUS KNIGHT

To-night at His Majesty’s Theatre Mr. Julius Knight, who is supported by a notable dramatic company or English and Australian artists, will make his re-appearance here in a remarkable play of absorbing interest by E. W. Hornung and Eugene \\ . Prosbrey, entitled “Raffles” (the Amateur Cracksman). The Wellington Times, speaking of this play, savs—“To the plavgoor who has just to enjoy himself ‘Raffles’ may be confidently recommended. One of the features of the piece is the remarkable ingenuity witli which the issues of successive situations are held back until the psychological moment, roll never know what is going to happen next. Ton are outwitted, just as the far-seeing detective is in the end. The first act keeps up the expectatiou of the onlookers witli its hints of coming sensations, on the introductory Olio of which the first curtail: falls. It is a burglary in duplicate ' a strong situation. The thickening plot is advanced in a second act that grows weak towards its close, and there follows an exceedingly powerful third act, made lip of scenes of accumulating excitement, and culminating in one the unexpectedness and novelty of which arouses great enthusiasm. amidst which tile audience cheerfully overlook the fact that a stretch of imagination has-been asked of them in file climax. Even now the interest is upheld, the concealment of the ultimate end is sustained. And so through a fourth act of dramatic scenes, to the surprise of the filial one —a surjiri.se that sets Raffles’s friends in front fairly shouting with glee.” “To-morrow night Sir Arthur Con-

an Doyle’s charming phi'* “Brigadier Gerard” will be produced, and on AVetliiesilay tlie company’s final appearance will be in “Robin HoocL”