ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2377, 18 December 1908, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE TITTELL BRUNE SEASON

Th simple .girl ■’whose life is lived amid rough surroundings and still rougher characters ds always an appealing picture on tho stage. -And there are ,no times affording better stage opportunities than those of the early days during the great rush for gold iin the Western portion of America. This is to ia great extent the cause of the success that ‘Sunday” achieved, and in a like manner Miss Bruno will have to thank the Williamson management for.securing for her “The Girl in the Golden West,” the locale of which is California, in 18-19. There was a mining camp saloon kept hy a. young girl at the foot of Blondy .Mountain. Like - many other strange people in this peculiar eodnhry, the girl had lost her name in the vast ness of the hills, and the vigor of the life she led, and she was simply .known as “The Girl” who doled out the whisky to men, kept order in the dance (hall, acted as their hanker, their social mentor, and their school mistress. Miss Tittell ■Brune is said to give the character of “The Girl” variety, etrength, and soul'.’ She portrays it without vice and without .sophistry, free, wild, and impassioned, and without maiming the traditions" showing vividly the reactions of such a ‘life. Mr. Thomas Kingston appears las “Dick “The Sheriff.” Others in the oast are Miss Addle Kelley and Messrs. Boring Fernie, Leonard Willey, L. Hardinge, T. W. Lloyd, It. Stanley,' Greglian MacMahon, .Harry Sweetney, Fred. iCanihourne, It edge Carey, <and Frank Harcourt. “The Girl of the Golden West” will be staged on Monday evening .and on Tuesday another new play, “Diana of Dobson’s” will be produced. “Diana of Dobson’s” is the story of a London shop girl, who unexpectedly

inherits a small sum of money, and resolves to live at tihe rate of £3OOO a year for one month only. After seeing life at a fashionable holiday resort in Switzerland, an awakening comes and the novel situations then introduced are said to be extremely cilever and interesting. Mrs. Robert Brough will appear in the cast 01 “Diana of iDobson’s”. The box plans are at -Mailer’s