ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2137, 12 March 1908, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HERBERT FLEMMING COMPANY

HIS MAJESTY’S TO-NIGHT.

To-night- Mr. Herbert Flemming will present for the first time in Gisborne Isaac Henderson’s curiously titled play “Tho Mummy and the Humming Bird.” The character drawing has been accomplished with consummate s’kill and fine artistic conception. Air. Henderson has succeeded in an admirable degree in producing a play which calls for close attention and quick and ready understanding, and given that, it is highly enjoyable. Tomorrow (Friday), the attraction will bo “Peter’s Mother,” of which the Auckland Herald says-: “The story grips the attention from the outset, and holds it to the end, One grows exceedingly anxious for the sequel, and takes a personal interest, as it were, in the evolution of character that goes on. The stage personages one is on intimate terms with from the first moment of their introduction. Like a book that one cannot drop until the last page be turned, the plot, as it is enacted, never fails to sustain an eagerness to hear it out. Aud what is the keynote of it all? Just a sweet, self-sacrificing mother—a woman misunderstood, misused, first by a selfish husband, later by an even more selfish son—hemmed in by narrow limitations, looked upon as one who should have- done with the joys of life, but who is nevertheless bursting with tho longing to be allowed to live it. On Saturday, the last- night of the season, “Tho Morals of Marcus” will be presented. This .plav is stili running to crowded houses in Londop, where it was an instantaneous success. There will he a late train to all stations bn Saturday night.