ALLAN WILKIE COY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3559, 23 August 1920, Page 4

ALLAN WILKIE COY.

“THE ROTTERS”—TO-NIGHT. Those who relisli good wholesome comedy will be interested in the announcement that at the Town Hall, Taihape this evening, the Allan Wilkie .Special Comedy Company will appear in H. F. Maltby’s famous comedy “The Rotters, V which comes from London with an exceptional reputation. The play embodies a cleverly worked-o.ut :Story of a self made illiterate town councillor, Clugstou, whose chief pride is his family’s respectability. Events which create most laughable situations are those depicting the besmirching of the family name in turn by the “flapper”’ youngster of the household, who is expelled from college, by the son and heir, who drags the respectable name of Clugstou into the police court, and by the eligible elder daughter, who degrades herself so much as to be caught in the arms of Clugstou’s chauffeur. Then there is a nice disclosure concerning Mrs Clugstou. who had kept secret from her husband that she was a widow when she married him. But this is as nothing compared with the laughter caused by a revelation regarding another member of the family. The box plan is at Pratt & Co’s.