THE WILLMOTT COMBINATION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2062, 9 April 1883, Page 2

THE WILLMOTT COMBINATION.

THE SIX-ACT PERFORMANCE "LED ASTRAY." The very unpropitious weather on Saturday for anyone to turn out except on actual business induced Mr Frank Willmott at an early hour in the evening to forego the contemplated performance at the Theatre Royal, and the doors were consequently closed. The weather cleared tip yesterday, and the prospect of a fine evening for the production for the first time in Kuraara of the newly-translated French drama " Led Astray " is more promising, and we hope to see a good house. This is one of the few plays which make you wish when the curtain drops that there had been more of it. In the first act (of which there are six) we find that the Countess Armande, in jealousy of her husband, determines to visit the Opera '• alone," in order to be an eye-witness of his infidelity. In the second act the unprincipled lover of the distracted Armande, and the Count (her husband) meet, and a disagreement at cards is made a pretext to conceal the real cause of a quarrel—that of the dishonor of the Count by Deaparre. A duel follows,-iu the forest at Fontainbleau, while heavy snow is falling, rendering the scene very exciting. The Count, who is shot in the pistol arm, deliberately walks up to his opponent, and, placing the loaded weapon against the villain's breast, with a look of scorching hatred gives him back his " worthless life, for it will be punishment enough." Such is a brief outline of this stirring sensational drama—which is to be performed by the Willmott Combination this evening. The known reputation of this Combination for sterling good acting is v/ell known, and a genuine treat may be expected.