ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 171, 24 March 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PLIMMER—HALL DRAMATIC TOUR. TAIHAPB, THURSDAY, APRIL 1.

"LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN."

The Plimmer—Hall Company will present the most successful of all Wilde's plays, in the Taihape Town Hall, on April Ist, in aid of the- : "BeV gian Relief Fund. The success of "Lady Windermere's Fan," on its recent production in New York by Margaret Anglin, proved that Wilde is an author who did not write' for his time alone. This play is as full of aphorism and epigram as his comedies, and has a tense dramatic plot. Messrs Plimmer and Hall have brought together a 6 peeially-selected cast fcr the: opening production, including Miss Beatrice Day, whose capabilities are so well known to New Zealand playgoers. As already announced, the management are giving the whole of the returns for the ten weeks' tour of New Zealand to the aid of the Belgians. Messrs Harry Plimmer and Winter Hall are both New Zealanders, and in devoting their time', energy, and enterprise 1 to this object they feel that, as far as they are able, they are assisting patriotism. Theatre nights are being arranged for this season. The box plan opens at Finch's Banaar on Saturday next

"THE GLAD EYE." "Thei public want novelty; they want all the good dramatic fare they have heard of as being" in London, and I mean to give it to them,' said Mr Beaumont Smith to a recent interviwer in Melbourne. On Thursday Mh' Beaumont Smith will, at the Town Hall, Taihape, give local playgoers "The Glad Eye" with a cast of English actcrs and actresses specially selected in London, who will he assisted by a few Australian artists of hi,zh standing. First and foremost, Miss Ethel Dane, a dainty fresh young actress wno amused all London for fifteen months, must be mentioned, then Alice Hamilton, the reputedly bestdressed woman en the stage in the antipodes to-day, a dainty ingenue in Clarice Hc\rdwick, and Miss Evelyn Harvey. Of comedians the Company has been hailed as rich. In Australia to-day the names Bradley, Ford, Shelford and Landor are household names and no way behind come the members of an evenly-balanced, clever company.