HAETREY COMEDY COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 235, 31 October 1903, Page 2

HAETREY COMEDY COMPANY.

■J A farewell visit from the ab;ve favourite C:mp vay will take pl?ce at r the Theatre Royal next we9k, the short ' season of two nights commencing on . Thursday with a new piece just out • from Home. The following clipping will explain the large amount of atten--1 tion attracted by tfce production: —" A piece of interesting theatrical news i reaches me («rit c s the London correspondent of the Sydney Telegraph) in 1 ths statement that Mr William tiaw- | trey is going to take " The Two Mr Wetherbye," by Mr St. John Hankin, on tour in your part of the world. 1 There is (says the dramatic critic of t the St. James's Gazette), " something raally captivating in the notion of a stage society production going on tour 1 at the Antipodes. Supposed, by mani agora and other experienced persons, to be the most intimately Russian caviare even for the average playgoer, they are deemed suitable as a charm wherewith to draw money from Antipodean pockets. . . Is the Old Country so hopelessly bshind the times that she 1 neglects tlw p-arls cast before her, or ' is it merely another instance of the superior intelligence and greater enterprise that are being perpetually dinned into our ears ? Anyhow, the stage will giin a solid advantage when " The . Two Mr Wetherbys" creep from the sacred shadows of a stage Bo -ie'y trial 1 to strut unabashed in the full glare of 1 ordinary footlights. Every one will wish them well on their travels." By universal rr-quest " A from Mars" will follow on Friday night, j The bos pi mj ■ pws Monday, J