ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 10 August 1915, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GRAHAM MOFFAT'S SCOTTISH PLAYERS “A Scrape o’ the Pen” is to be produced at Ute'Town Hal! to-morrow evsAjag, when these- popular placers, Mr and Mr s Grhaam Mocat will appear in their play of Scottish farm lift;. The play is centred round the :Id Scotch marriage ceremony, and the certificate handed each party was 'mown as a scrape o’ the pen. The Mery opens in the kitchen foHoneyntjuk Farm. Seven years before the -periling of th e play, Alec, the son of nld Mattha and Lec.ie luglis marries I lean Lcwther, a new maid at the farm and immediately leave;-; for South Afica, Jean, hearing after his departure hat he has betrayed E.ppie Oliphant, cars up her copy of a scrape o’ the, ■•on, and a little later marries Hugh Menzies, the farm manager, while little Eppie, Alec’s child now motherless, is brought up by Jean in ignorance of her mother’s disgrace Later Alec’s pocket book containing his copy of the marriage certificate is stole;n from him in Africa, but th e piece of paper being valueless to the thief, is discarded by him, only to be picked up by someone who, knows the. old people and returns it to the farm. Mattha sends for Jean, 1 but she, in te-ars, begs forgiveness, which is granted by the old man. Alec, however, returns unexpectedly to the farm on New Year’s morning, and is Jean’s first footer. After a stormy scene, Alec is taken up to see bis little girl sleeping peacefully, and the sight of her innocent face, decides him on his course of action, and he burns his copy of the certificatei as the curtain falls on a happy household, Jean’s husband never learning the truth. Mr Moffat has in this instance written something even truer to life, than “Bunty.” The box plan is at 'Finch’s Bazaar.