“HOME SWEET HOME.”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 6 November 1907, Page 2

“HOME SWEET HOME.”

It is aauuoimecd in our advertising columns to-day that on Monday evening next, November 11th, All Allan Hamilton’s new dramatic company will make its first Tppsarance in Alartou at tlio Opera House, producing Frank Liudo’s powerful domestic drama, in four acts, Home, Sweet Homo. ” Tho play, it may be said at once,'has had a brilliant reception everywhere, an has more than fulfilled ospccta.tions. Though classed as. a. melodrama, it is said to bo of infinitely higher quality, both as regards dialogue and incident, than tne majority of productions carrying that'title. “Homo, Sweet Home contains all tlio elements to make up a typical ladies’ drama. It is clean, iuialthy. and wholesome to a decree | 'in fuel, a domestic drama, pure and simple, from the Hse to.the fall of the curtain. The play is redolent of English conn try life, and the •cleverness of the author rivets the attention from the time the curtain rises on a pretty sotting, sliowI iuff a fishing village off tho Sfigush I const, until it finally (Jnsequciii qn ilia home of istepfidu AmitagO, ’ one oi Uio : principal' characters, The management claim that no other modern drama lias attracted such largo audiences composed of ladies as '“Home, fewest Home,” imp it also has the component parts to appeal to tho sterner sex. A very powerful company of established I'avbtmtes [has been engaged by Mr •George Allan Hamilton, including Air "George E. Bryant, one of America’s foremost stage managers, under whose direction the Squaw Man” „ and other dramas of the Waldrou-Humphries Company were produced under the management of Mr J. O. Williamson. The whole production will be put on with that thoroughness that lias always characterised Air Hamilton’s productous, ' The bos plan _ opens tomorrow morning at, Alogridgo's.