LEIGH-DOUGLAS COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 8, 10 January 1903, Page 2

LEIGH-DOUGLAS COMPANY.

| "THE BUTLER." Fun reigned fast and furious at the I Theatre Royal last: night. " Laugh • ' and grow fat" is a common saying -if there is anything in it the audience / Us 1 ; night should be approa' hing cor- 1 ' puleacy. " The Butler " is a farcical,' iCjmedy in which the love aftairg of; 1 j thme different couples are apparently! 1 hopelessly intermingled, whils"; the I c utttDg proce s ia each case is alter-1 nately thwarted an'i assisted by thei inecible •' Sir John Nrtcey " and " The! I Bu 1-r" respectively. The vavioua lov.) scorns both grave and gay, par- , ticnlarly the la'tir, left no room for a dull moment throughout the evening. 1 The centre piece of the show was of | course "The Bu'ler—David Trott" . and in this character Mr Harry Doug- . las proved a host in hims.lf, whilst . Miss Dora Mistyo always a popular ■ favouri:e cn the New Plymouth boards completely b-ought down the house ■ wi'h her clever interpretation of the ' cockney domes'ic " Lavioia Muddle." r Mr James Martin also completely filled the bill-as the irritable old meddler, "Sir 1 John Tracey," whilst Mr Hetbut a Leigh took the part of the heavy swe'l ® " Frank St. John," as if to the manner , born. Miss Rose Phillips again proved il hersolf a capable actress in the characl > ter of "Alica Marshall," whiltt Mrs B Barny Line i s " Lidy Tracey " wa< immense The remaining members of | the compmy, as follows, did fall justice |to tSt-ir respective parts: " LorJ Babn bicomb'," Mr Harry Jordan; " Lu-

rence Tracey," Mr Jack G odal! ; " Perkins," "Mr Joe Devon; Ldy Anne B ibbicombe," Miss Maie Shepp.rd. The show was certainly worth going a long way to are and hear. TO-NIQHT.—"EAST L¥NNB." If any drama would attract a packed house oq Saturday night it is that of " Em l ; Lynne." Nat only is M'"B Henry Wood's novel pf that s? well known that it may bp said to have found readers in every hcqseho'd, but the play which ia funded on that popular work heg met vith equal success. Wherever it ha* been stogsd i' has proved an irresistible attraction, nor is the reason far to seek. It is replete with interest of a mist ab-o-bing kind, while it l>nda itself to an v ppeal to the emotions of an audience in a way th it few play* cm accomp'ish. The Ln'gh-Diuglia Company have proved themselves most able exponents of th<s class of drama, and they may safely be relied on to perform "East Lyjjne" in a way that will stamp the conclusion of their season here as a red letter day in the annals of the Theatre Royal.

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