ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1896, 29 October 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“PEG 0’ MY HEART.” TO-NIGHT! Few modern plays can boast of more success than J. Hartley Manners’ Irish comedy of youth, which has never facd a small or indifferent audience since its first performance in London in 191-1, and which will be presented at the Town Hall tonight. “Peg o’ My Heart” is undiluted delight from beginning to end, and that almost exclusively from the perfect picture of a simple, fresh, comely, and outspoken maid, a somewhat wild,' impulsive, but goodhoarted Irish girl, whose directions of speech gives shocks to the nerves of her ultra-refined rich relations. Even when they lose their riches their freezing manners cling to them, and it is not difficult to realise how the warm heart of the Irish lass is deadened, when it is not inflamed by the artificiality and silly sentimentalities of the superior persons with whom she is condemned for a time to live. Messrs J. and N. Tail are sending a completely New- English company for “Peg o’ My Heart’s” New Zealand tour. The Company scored a wonderful success in Australia; in Sydney the run of the piece broke all records by running for 112 performances. The role of Peg is played by Miss Sara Allgood, a brilliant young Irish actress from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, who has all the attributes essential to an ideal rendering of (he part. She has youth, good looks, and remarkable dramatic talent; while the brogue which she brings from her Dublin home silvers the words that ripple from her lips. And her laugh well, wait and hear. Patrons are advised to secure their seats at Mrs Teviotdale’s, and avoid disappointment at the doors.