ALLAN WILKIE COMPANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2154, 24 July 1920, Page 3

ALLAN WILKIE COMPANY.

“THE ROTTERS.”

A theatrical treat is promised for next .Friday evening, 30th inst., when the Allan "Wilkie Comedy Company will present 11. ,F. Maltby’s world-famed comedy, ‘‘The Rotters,” at Foxton Town Hall. .Mr Wilkie Ims selected a special comprttifv for the production of this piece throughtont Hew Zealand, the lour being eondueted by motor ears supplied by the Aard Taxi Company, of Ha pier. “The Matters” arrives with a great reputation from London, where it was Jirst introduced four years ago, and has been revived, with tremendous success, three times, in (liat city. l The plot has to do •with the laughable dilemmas of one Clugston, a seif-made illiterate man, who has risen to the middle-class in provincial Horth of England. Clugstou boasts of his ultra-respectabi-lity, but receives many severe shocks through the lapses of the members of his family. A conspicuous .figure in the play is Clugs Urn’s chauffeur, a well-educated young man Avho is an outcast from his people. The dialogues are reported to be particularly smart, and the situations are riotously laughable. Owing to the remarkable success of “The Hollers,” Mr Wilkie Juts secured the .Princess Theatre, Melbourne, for a season of sixteen weeks, in order to introduce the play to Melbourne audiences later on. The box plan is at Heath's.