AMUSEMENTS.
J. C. WILLIAMSON'S DRAMATIC
COMPANY.
Liu; bqx plans for the only representation oi "The Man Who Stayed 'at Homo,” the sensational patriotic spy play, to lie staged at the Town Hall on Saturday night next hy J. C. [ Williamson’s company, will he opened at Grubb’s to-morrow morning at eight o’clock. The following is a brief outline of the .plot of “The Man Who Stayed at Homo.” Christopher Brent is the man who stays at home at the luxurious “Wave Crest” private hotel at a watering-place on the East Coast, when all the men of his age and position in the neighbourhood, ! volunteer for the front. The audience 'sees him in the pleasant, sunshiny breakfast-room with various other ! hoarders, a lounging, indolent, welldressed fellow, and vote him a ‘Tmr- ' feet idiot’ ’on sight—which is exactly | what he wishes Mrs. Sanderson and her 'German son and German waiter also 'to do. As soon as the fascinating widow, Miriam Leigh (\ iolet i’aget) gets him alone, he throws off tho mask, becomes a shrewd quick man, and betrays the fact that Miriam and I himself have entered tho Brit ish Sec- ! ret Service. Unfortunately he cannot [explain this to his fiancee, Molly Preston. Her faith in him is unshaken even when Daphne Kidliugton, forces a white feather upon him with insulting significance. Molly’s battles in defence of her lover with the others in the house, her feminine logic in I clinging to her belief in his honesty, and the touching-scenes between the two, form the love interest. But primarily the drama is a conflict of wits between Brent and Miriam Leigh on the British side, and Mrs Sanderson, her sou Carl (a traitor in the Admiralty Office), Fritz, the spy waiter, and Frl. Schroeder, the venomous German governess, for the enemy. At one time Brent is seen following a clue in the construction of the fire-place, until he discovers a button, and the Marconi wireless swings into view. In a moment ho has sent a number of misleading messages to a German submarine. Later he shoots a carrier pigeon while it is circling preparatory to a flight to Berlin, and secures a sketch book showing plans of fort's, lighthouses ,etc. The dramatic situations are relieved by a .number of genuinely humorous and wholesome comedy scenes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 97, 25 August 1915, Page 7
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382AMUSEMENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 97, 25 August 1915, Page 7
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