"A WOMAN OF IMPORTANCE."

Shannon News, 1 April 1924, Page 3

"A WOMAN OF IMPORTANCE."

On Wednesday the feature at the Maoriland Theatre will be Oscar Wilde's famous play, "A Woman, of No Importance." Rachel, a young girl-oa.the threshold of life listened to the love making of George Harford, the cynical man of the world:, to whom women are but the playthings of a moment. He promised to marry her, - but the pleasures of the world distract him and his promise never materialises. Rachel brings up her child in the spirit of her own, toiling for him with an inexhaustible love that wins her son's supreme regard. He becomes a 1 barrister and the light of Rachel's eyes—and one day in' the outside world meets his father, without knowing -who he is. Cynical as is the latter, he is attracted by this eager impetuous youth, who reminds him. subtly of someone he had known, in the dim past, and he offers to make him his secretary. Rachel not knowing- of his accession to the'title, wishes to meet the man who is so good to her son and finds he is the man who betrayed her. The son forsakes the career Harford' might have made for (him and" remains by his mother's side, and so wins the love of a girl whom he had long admired.