DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 80, 4 October 1879, Page 2

DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.

The second entertainment given under the auspices of the Working Men's Dramatic Club, came off m the Foresters' Hall on Wednesday evening, and proved a great success. There was a " bumper house," and the large audience seemed by their applause to fully appreciate the efforts bfiour local amateurs. The pieces selected were Buckstones Domestic Drama, entitled '♦ Luke the Laborer, or the Lost Son," which had an almost unprecedented run when first brought out m ■London, and the scream^ ing farce of "A Bad Night's Rest.". In the performance" of the f^rst "piece the scenery worked rather stiffly, but as this is freqaently^the case even wifh professionals on the occasion of first representations it, is fairly excusable, and no doubt as 'experience is gained this trifling drawback will disappear. The piece was well cast. The character of Luke was ably 'sustained by Mr. ; A. F. Morgan, who looked and acted the part well. The role I'bf "Squire Ohase, : Lord of the Manor, the arch villian of the plat,* was fairly well filled by Mr, W; T;'Wood. Mr. Gv Coe, as Wakefield, a decayed farmer, was rather wanting m expression, though his enunciation was good Mr F. Hovrard, as "Charley IVfay^dew; a young farniei? more prone to flirting than hard wark.dressed the character well. Mr. J. Lane made a capital sailor, and Mr. S. Lane, as Bobby Trot, , a. Yorkshire country lad was unexceptionable, using the peculiar vernacular of that; portion of Her Majesty's dominions with irresistible effect. Mr; J. Gralvin made the fairest gipsy we remember to have seen, and Mr. G. Hartley looked a veritable postilion, Mr. C. Printzien, as the landlord of the Kings *Head Inn, made rather a surley Boniface, giving one the idea that his attentions were centred on the till. Dame ] Wakefleld found a very -good representative m Miss "Richardson, who looked the bereaved mother admirably, Mrs. ! W. T. Wood, , as her daughter Clara, played her part very well, while Miss ■C. Hanson, as Jenny, made as charming a country girl as. eVer tripped \t pn the village green <■;.■ • :'/.-. . , The- farce MA Bad Night's Rest," kept the audience m a roar of , laughierthroughout. ; . Mr. E; Charles as the " cjplored " anifiraat ler m search pi:, quiet lodgings was Immense, his jmakel up being excellent without being extravagant. Mr. Mor-. gan as Mr. Johnston, the '*' hotel-keeper-doing a,la%e Hii|9ines>/^,Jefi> : nothing ta be desired, 'while Jaoko, the monkey, found; an apt? representative m ..Mr. J. Galvin, ;wbpse. antics tended to disturb the distinguished traveller's rest very materially. >■ T^e farce was well played throughout, and sent the audience home . in great spo'4 fcu.mor> ■- ' ' ' .;'■'. ' ' After the p.erfopm.ane.e the Hall was cleared fpfl a dance, which was kept up till about two o'clock. ' " ' We must congratulate the Club on the success of their secohd^perfprmance which, we-n^ust not omit to state, was m qicl or t^e Cemetery Pnndt* With, practice the Club, we feel sure, will make an exoeHent amateur, company.