PEG O' MY HEART.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 19 September 1918, Page 3

PEG O' MY HEART.

LYRIC THEATRE, TUESDAY NEXT

" Peg o' my Heart," J. and N. Taif s first theatrical production has proved one of the most successful of that firm's many ventures. It conies here with the original Company on Tuesday next. Peg is the daughter of an impecunious Irish genius, who settles in the United States. There she is brought up in the freedom of untraraelled American society but when she is growing up she is left an income, a proviso of which is that she shall go to England to be transformed into a "young English lady " in the home of the haughty Chichesters, who are relatives. The family consists of the stately mother, the supercilious daughter and the silly-ass son with a monocle and a drawl, all rather prim and proper in their blue-bloodedness and their regard for the conventions of a certain social circle in England. Into this refrigerator of a house poor little Peggy drops down, with her uncouth but loving ways, with her shafts of Irish wit and the pathos of Irish sadness. She and her Irish terrier are like fish out of water. Added to her trials is the rather attractive villian, Brent, a part that is played by Mr Lionel Walsh. Peg tried hard to knuckl* down, but her dog fights with Ethel Ohichester's aristocratic pup, Jand she herself grieves for her daddy and the free days of little old America. But gradually the electricity of her personality thaws the English icebergs, she saves Ethel from the clutches of Brent, and love comes to Peg. It is an idyll all through, told in clean ond crisp dialogue. The box plan is now open at the Helensville Bazaar, and intending patrons are advised to book their seats to avoid disappointment at the doors.