THE STANFORD DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 49, 14 March 1901, Page 2

THE STANFORD DRAMATIC COMPANY.

"THE POWER AND THE GLORY." The plot of "The Power and th ! Glory " in which the Stafford Draimti Company opsin at th'i The.-.tro Roya rthis oveGing, revolves around the live of two women of opposite tempera meats who are pitted in a battle o strength and character, tho ropuhtioi con'est of vica and virtue. Good luck, given over to a lifo of sin, whicl she dflibwut-'ly flunnts in the face o! the haroine, Lizz'e Wed win, whoso has band, JJaro d Modwin, under pre-'sup; of starvation is induced to jo ; n in s burglary. Hotly pursued by the police Medwin thrusts some of the stol".? property into his wife's haeds, and shi ia arrasted with it in h«r possassion The coward denies that »he is bis wife, and to savo her husb;»Ed she is oavried off to prison. On her release she finda that Med win has been fcskan up hy n wealthy aunt, with whom he is living, along with Kate Gotidlnck and hor aesocia e. Mrs. Medwin's reappaarancp if. not at all appreciated. All sorts of plots are laid against her life and honour, but) ore inevitably frustrated. Kate Soodlnck joinsa pantomime company, in which the heroine, as fading kdy, has it one time to ba suspended by a wiro :ope from the casling. She plots to sut this rope, but once again her n-ichisatioDs are defeated, and the oeledrama closes with the arrest of the ■ssoriato villains for the murder of iiirold Medwiei, and summary concluion of thmr career of crime. We would remind intending patro: s hat the curtain risss at 7.45. An the ox plan is filling rapidly, those intenda? to book seats far this ovynin™] iouid io so oiirly ia tka 4&y, '!