OPERA HOUSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 62, 25 August 1906, Page 6

OPERA HOUSE.

William- Anderson's Dramatic Company.

Mi; Wm. Anderson's really high-class dramatic company continued to attract big business all week with Walter Melville's stirring play "The Worst Woman m London." Mr Diver and Miss Helene Burdette, as the pair of worsts ever, were superbly hateful m their parts, the lady showing, especially strongly as the# reckless and heartless Frances Vere. Miss Maisie Maxwell scored heavily m the part of the trusting daughter of the durned old fool, Milford, who marries the worst woman c , and Miss Georgie Leighford filled her . thankless part splendidly. One of the very best character sketches seen here was Stirling Whyte's old match seller, Poppa to the bad female, and there were a lot of other excellent portrayals otdifticult parj-s. To-night the company will revive Brooke Warren's weirdly sensational'drama,. ."'The Face at the Window," and as "Truth" happens to know that Wellington has been wait;ing for this piece, it is sure to be .largely patronised. The frequent apparition at the -window of that ghastly face, that bloodr-curdling scream and the horrible realism of •the 'temporarily resuscitated murdered detective, are calculated to provide jcreepiness to -satisfy tne most-horror-greedy de you rer of penny dreadfuls•and shilling shockers, and the company is so constituted that -the /piece •should Have the most able interpretation. The Face will' continue to -.Ki'bber until -Wednesday night, and on Thursday, Friday ami- Saturday next another striking play entitled '•'Between Two "Women" wjll he staged for the first time m New Zealand. This is .one of Mr Anderson's most recent acquisitions and Mr Michael Joseph is ■the authority for naying that it is full of life and incident and will prove gratifying to the public taste.