HAWTREY COMEDY COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 90, 26 August 1903, Page 2

HAWTREY COMEDY COMPANY.

The ur.fortunate detention of the ! Takapuna at Onehuaga on Monday night waa the me ins of creating onadtrable disappointment to theatregoers, who were anticipitiag the plessure of witnessing the above favourite company at tha Tneatre Royal, but tho fates willed it otherwise, and the company arrived here from Auckland much too late to render a perform mce on Tuesday evening pr-siblo. This limits the company's season hsra to two days, another 9'utce of regret, inasmuch as the production if "The Messige from Mars" will hive to be postponed until their next visit, which will ha early in Novembor. To night will ba staged for the first time in Now Plymouth "The Other Min's Busiooss," a farcical comedy in three acts by Messrs Elton and Pctley, which has done good business in the Old Country, The plot is reported to be remarkably end boisterously funny, the troubles of Mr Bloggott, a dentist' by choice and a tobacconist by profession—a role taken by Mr Oregon MacMahon- assuming terrible propor- ' tions. Mr Hawtrey has a part that • suits him exactly. It is that of a rioh | old uocla with a will yet to bj made, and it is the anxiety of his nephew to .jpropitia'e this important p is mage, j wlii.jh leads to extraordinary complicttions. When produced in Loudon this I comedy proved quite a rage, and drew ieno.m us hous-.s, and in tho hmds o: i such txp rt arti-ts as Mr Hawtrny'n jcompiny is of, his proved an J equity gnat attrac'ion, [ To-morrow night "Little Lord Pauntleroy" will ba produced. , play is in itself charming and delicate ' in conception, and breathes an air of > biiuhtnets and freshness which comes i like a cooling draught to the traveller 1 over the arid fLld of modern dram i- ! tury. It is simply the story of a frank, winsoma boy, who movts through I the phy like a baam of sunshine. The . cast of chaiactors is an excellent,one, I The vary onerous p.irt of the Little Lord is takoi; by Miss Addie Lorking, . a little Auckland lady, who has won f golden opinions everywhere for her i performac 03.