AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 60, 16 July 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THE BUTTERFLIES. It is seldom that such a talented combination is gathered together as ha,ve been secured by Mr Jack Waller in his musical flight of fancy, The Butterflies, who make their only appearance in Stratford at the Town Hall this evening. The Wellington 'Times, noticing the first night of the return season at the Opera House, said: —The company played a very funny game of schools in “Madam Lizzie Flannelfoot and Her Thained Juveniles,” in which Miss Marion Armitage took the part of the schoolmistress. The “boys’” side of the class were excellent, and “Sammy” (Mr Wylie Watson) was particularly good. Mr Watson, incidentally, is one of the best ’cellists that has yet appeared before a Wellington audience, and his antics with the instrument are the funniest part of the whole entertainment. In “An Impression of a Hungarian Orchestra” (by desire), he is the bright spark, and his quiet humour is a feature of the turn. Altogether the “Butterflies” gave a pretty, musical entertainment, which pleases in every way. The box plan is at Grubb’s.

“A WOMAN OF IMPULSE.”

BOX PLAN OPENED TO-DAY

The box plans for the production opening at 8.30 at the Town Hall next Saturday night of “A Woman of Impulse,” by the Hamilton-Plimmer Dramatic Company are now on view at Grubb’s, and will be open to the public throughout the week. Lovers of the artistic drama will welcome with open'arms this coming production of a brilliant play by a brilliant company. The combination is a decidedly powerful one. The play has been described as ‘’‘the most compelling. play produced in Australasia during the last decade,” and the merits of the company can be gauged from the mere mention of its personnel, which includes Mrs Robert Brough, Miss Beatrice Day, Miss Ena Collins, Messrs Harry Plimmer, H. R. Roberts, Arthur Styan, Winter Hall, and Sydney Stirling. “A Woman of Impulse” is of four acts, into which are crowded the whole gamut of hearts throbs and emotions, a great deal of spirited incident, and a quantity of brilliant dialogues. The characters at the hands of the famous organisation are said to bo treated in a thoroughly artistic manner. In fact, to quote the Australian and New Zealand criticisms that have recently been bestowed on this Company—glowing criticisms all of them—would occupy much more space than we can afford to give.