ALLAN WILKIE COY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 14 August 1920, Page 4

ALLAN WILKIE COY.

“THE ROTTERS.” The Allaii \Vj_lkie Spe4:ial‘Colnedy Company will stage at'Thc Town Hall on Monday evening, 28th August the famous comedy “The Rotters,” by H. F. Maltby, \\'hir.-h was first introduoerl into London £olll‘ year sage and experienced a triunlphal'run_ Ia hts singe been revived there =three times withr treniendous .succ.o.<.=. This piece is described as -the glno'~:7;' laughable play staged for many yetzirs past. The'le:l<fling charac.ter in ?‘::~.: plot is one ClingVston, a seffmade man, who, though ignorant has risen to ‘the middle-class of provincial NOl-th'of England. In order to i:'ln'ther his mtnbitions in loan] politics he " i~'. bent on inipressing‘ everyone \\'ith.Hlr3 gz*e:\~f I'especi':lbility of his family. Unfo‘rtun:ltel_v for himthe mcmb.el's of his housohoisi fail tolive up to Clll;:sto“n’.s ideals :1.n.c1 most laughable siimatiiiis are evoked. The’ box plan is at P":1H) nn-'1 (‘vmp::ny.