THEATRE ROYAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 240, 6 November 1903, Page 2

THEATRE ROYAL.

HAWi'REY COMEDY COMPANY. This popular company opened their two nights season here on Thursday evening with " The Two Mr Wbtherbys," a play which has excited soms curiosity owing to the celebrity of its author as a con'ribu'or to Punch, and to the means through which it first appeared io public. It certainly provides a (har&cter in the cast that suits Mr Hawtrey excellently, but otherwise there is not much that can be siid in i's favour. As the "bad" Mr Wetherby, Mr Hawtrey wag in his element. His by-play and humorous twitting of his " good " brother creating fr. qu nt outburst of laughter, but tho dull periods wpre many, and though the other members of the company did their btsfc to make matters interes ing, if, was impossible to arcuie ti a 1: en'husiasm wbich ore looks for as a tuattrr cf cr uwe whenever the Hawtrey Company stage a play. To-night, however, the ever-enjoyable

" MESSAGE FROM MARS " is to be pei formed, »nd there need be so misgivings as to its success. There is not a dull moment from start to finish, and it is one of those attractive plays that can well be ssen again and again, and the more f.. miliar it become? the greater the enjoyment of the audience, Parenls should rota that children are admitted to all parts of t le house, except the pit, at half price,