HAWTREY COMEDY COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 190, 25 August 1903, Page 2

HAWTREY COMEDY COMPANY.

To-NianT the aHovi well-known Oom* pmy *i 1 'p n a return of th r ea uiu'hts at th'i Ihe i'to U >yal w'en •'The Othi'r Mat.'.i ticil comedy in thie-i acts by Mesuri Kl on and Potley, which has done good h'i-ia- f-s in tho Old O uutrr, will be o, mo- d h< ro f'.-r thu fi-'»i '.ime. _ Th« dot-* in "O uiiUSiiil lines and is re,M,t.od tob.M'.m ikibly ai:d biia'.irai ly funny. Hdro is, of course, in Vidu:C; 'ho u.foruui'e man who it iierpetu'iily getting biotihelf into trouble, and in this play the troublesof Mr Bloggett, a dentist by choice and a tob cjonist, by profession— a role taken y Mr Gtvgon MacMebon— tisumj serriblo pcpwiioni. Mr Hawtrey jlaya ap it croat.d by Mr G. W. Afison, and r.-vo's in the nsmi of Batlcship. Ho is a testy old uncle, rich of : uise, and with a will ynt to be made, md it is the anxiety of hia nephew to ;i oiitiate this important personage wriioh lends to extraordinary oomplicaions. "Af'er the long curse of insipid bai.alities in the shupe of so* ■> 11.d f res " pays the Stage (London) " it is indeed r froihing to conn across ono that Ins a plot at all, and in this .■isi it is doubly pleasant to find one u xcellent and comp'et?. It proved to be one of the most uprowiously farcioal (•lays we have witnessed for a long ime." To-morrow night " Little Lord Fauntleroy' will be produoad. The play is in itself charming and delicate in conception, and breathes an air of brightness and freshness which comes :ib» a cooling draught to tbe traveller over the arid field of modern dramiturgy. It is simply the story of a frank, winsome boy, who moves through the thy like a beam of sun--hine. The cast of charee'ers is an excellent ono. The very onerous p»rt of the Little Lord is taken by Miss Addie Lorking, a little Auckhnd lady, who has won golden opinions everywhere for her peifoimance. "A Message from Mars" will be revived on Thursday evening,