ENTERTAINMENTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 February 1911, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROMEO AND JULIET -JULIUS RATTLE'S HONEYMOON TROUBLES. The performance to-night of the above two bills, by the Levin, Amateur Dramatic Society, promises to be a most pleasing and amusing one. The balcony scene from "Romeo and. •Tuliet," in'all its sweethiess and .joyous beauty, needs 110 description. Suffice to say that the costumes worn by Mrs Charles Banks and Mr Charles' Archer in the scene will be true to the period; also the setting of the balcony in the moonlight. Of course the balcony is somewtot restricted by the smallness of the stage. The farcical comedy, Julius Rattle's Honeymoon Troubles, is based upon the fact that a scapegrace captain in the British '' r,| '; v (retired from the service upon haltpay, being over head aind' ears m debt and financial difficulties) contracts a marriage with a rich but elderly spinster, for the sake or iher money. He (Julius Rattle played bv Mr Charles Archer) decidesto live a' virtuous and sober life until Laviuia, his elderlv wife (Mr Charles Banks), has paid all his debts. The old lady is gushing, fastidious and iealous, and gets upon Rattles nerves, so that he "breaks out,' and meeting with an old. acquaintance, a dancing opera girl, named Zoo Zephyr, he becomes entangled with her, gives her a promisory note foi £1000, audi still further increases nis difficulties. Finally he is arrested and placed in a dcbti.'s ' r v-r. While tifoero he meets with a lot or young bloods of the period, and gets intoxicated. He escapes from the debtors' cells and returns home to his dear Lavinia "royally and notouslv tipsy," turns the tables on ins wife upsets the whole household, horeswhips the servants, and generally plavs the dense. •(> '< (iko »'.ai. ters more complicated, and add to the fun, there is a pretty niece, m Rattle's house who _is m love with Osmond, a young lieutenant friend of Rattle's (played by Mr Geo. Gardener). Mrs Rattle, Who thinks that her husband Julius is .making too free with her niece Clara (Miss M. Sutherland) decides 1 ;| • l- er married, to an old. fossil, Sir Simon Slack)—an old dreamer who instead of marrying Clara is finally caught in the toils of a merry widow, Mrs General Dartmouth (Miss Maud Gurr). To make a long story short, between tihe machinations of Mrs General Dartmouth, Clara and Mrs Rattle, Sir Simon Slack is brought to the altar of matrimony like a lamb, and the wild, mad, harumJulius Rattle is sulxlued «incl helped out of all his difficulties. Lieutenafit Osmond becomes united to Clara, and the honeymoon of Rat-, tie's is brought to a happy end. The piece is a laughter maker, like "Charlev's Aunt," and should meet with a big house • at 'lie Town Hall, Levin.