A NEW DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 66, 18 March 1903, Page 2

A NEW DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT.

The announcement that Mr J. 0. Williamson has arranged for a visit to New Plymouth of the famous " Sherlock Holme*" Oonipmy hag been received with the utmost satisfaction, and there is every inlication that the season will dj something akin to a boom, Already the coming visit is talked about, and it is to be hoped that | Mr Williamson will be more than eub- j stantiaLy rewarded for his enterprise! in sending bi-j first-class attraction to this town. The season-will be a brief one of three nights dwatioD, but daring that time three of the greatest dramatic successes of recent days will ba staged, viz., Sir A. Oonoan Doyle's famous creation "Sherlock Holmes," j ' Justin Huntley McCarthy's immens-ly Uucce sful ronwn'ie and spectacular play "if I were King," and the gre .t ' military dram* " S.cret Service." The j [opening production will ba "Sherlock' I Holmes," or the " Stiange Case of Miss j Faulkner," being a hitherto unpublished incident in the career of the great detective. When first produced at Mr Williamson's Melbourne and Sydney theatres, " Sherlock Holmes " scored an enonmuu success, running for no less than saven weeks at Mot- j bourne, and eight weftfeu inJSydney tu_ crowded and enthusias-ic audiences, whilst it has recently finished record runs in all the pritc pal cities in New Zealand, where the company has been paying for the past four months. To i produce, these dramas with all the ' necessary completeness, which is so we'l known a characteristic of Mr J. j 0. Williamson, a powerful compiuy of j dramatic artists has been specially j selected in England and America, and i is headed by the famous young American acsor, Mr Ouyler Hastings, who i has created a perfect furoro wherever ho has appaared in the ch/iraetez'. Tne other members of the company include Mr Hamilton Stewart (frutn the H <y- ; m.u-ket Th»nt>e, Loudon), Messrs ; Lumden, Hue, Edmond Gjrmer, i Frar.k Holius (from the principal i loudjn theatres), Mr J. B. Athtwood i (Australia's leading character actor). ; Messrs Roland Stavaly, Dale, Revenall, ; j Paul Saardon, Stanley Walpole; Misses ' May (Jhevalter, Mabel Lane, Minnie Tirry,-Nina Herbert (fiom the leading ■ English Theatres), a!6O Miss Florence ■ Gleesou, Julia Merton and Lillian ) Meyers, and many others toonumsrous 1 to mention. 'Jhosa who desire to see > thive of the nacst remarkable attrac--1 tions ever booked for New Plymouth i must not fail to secure their seats ■ early.