"CALLED BACK."

Kumara Times, Issue 2923, 12 March 1886, Page 2

"CALLED BACK."

To-night, at the Theatre Royal, is to be presented " the greatest attraction ever offered on the Coast," when the members of the " Called Back " Dramatic and Comedy Company, eighteen to twenty in number, will play the dramatisation of the late Hugh Conway's weird and sensational romance " Called Back." " The story," writes a contemporary who has witnessed its production by this company, " has been dramatised in a way that would have satisfied the author had he lived to see it. If possible, the dramatisation is far more dramatic and sensational than the piece as it left the pen of the late Mr Fa.gus. With the novelette it was only the more sensitive and impressionable who could reach that feeling the author wanted to arouse; but as the less educated catch the effect as much through the eye as the ear, the stage representation is undoubtedly the mote effective. The story is very faithfully reproduced on the stage. Not a point or effect is lost that could be emphasised in a spectacular way." The following powerful caste will be en»a»ed ■ Pauline (her memory of the past is obscured by the shades of the present) Miss Eloise Juno Theresa (her Italian attendant) Miss Ella Carrington Priscilla Drew (Gilbert Vaughan's Nurse) Miss Lily Hill Jenny (a Servant) ... Bliss Hattie Hayes Gilbert Vaughan (the blind witness) MrC. H.Taylor Bryan (a Night Watchman 1 ) Arthur Kenyon (Gilbert's F «end) Mr J. J. Kennedy Dr. Ceneri (Pauline's Guardian) Mr Wilson Forbes Macari (a Conspirator) Mr J. H. Nunn Anthony March (Pauline's Mother) Mr L. Dunbar Petroff (one of "The Great Cause") Mr T.Evans Detective Smart (from Scotland Mr R. W. Rogers Captain Valarmoff (a Russian ofiice r) Mr J. Davis Ivanolsk (his Orderly) Mr W. H. Horton It may be mentioned that Mr C. H. Taylor, who is one of the actors, has the sole right of producing this play in Australia and New Zealand. The entertainment will be concluded with the highly amusing piece, "Barney's Luck." There is likely to be a large house.