Theatre Royal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 184, 9 August 1904, Page 4

Theatre Royal.

MR J. C. WILLIAMSON'S NEW COMEDY COMPANY. Speciallyorganised by Mr Williamson for the purpose of presenting in Australasia all the latest ami most successful high-class comedies of the English stage, his new company, now playing in Auckland, and which it is announced will appear here in the Theatre Royal on Monday and Tuesday evening next, is said to be composed ol some ol the finest artists ever seen- in the Colonies. They will have an opportunity of displaying their ability here in the two comedies "The Marriage of Kitty" and "His Excellency the Governor," respectively. Both these plays bear the hall mark of London approval. The former is from the French of Madame Fred 1). Gersuc, and Francis de Croisset, being adapted by Cos'mo Gordon Lennox. It was played for two seasons in London, and contemporaneously made an enormous success throughout America. Mr Williamson first presented it for the approval of the Australian public in Adelaide on Easter Saturday last, and the impression it created and the success achieved may be gauged from the following taken from the review of the production by the leading journal :—"lt opened with good report, and the wine of comedy flowed andsparkled for two and a half hours and when it was all over, the crowded house rose to its feet and cheered for several minutes. It was all very delightful, and the audience <drank the pleasure with infinite relish. ' The Marriage of Kitty' was a r. a re treat, and there was just that touch of pathos to perfect the comedy. Amid the laughter came a little lunip in the throat, tears mingled with smiles for one brief simce, and the success of the play ,was This flattering encomium has .subsequently been emphatically endorsed in Melbourne, Sydney, and yet again in Auckland, where the comedy was played to overflowing houses, so that Ihen; can be no question n s to its brilliancy and attractiveness The comedy to be presented on the second evening entitled "His Excellency the Governor" is said t0 , 10 a (!h . innin romantic comedy by Captain Marshall, «nd wnon ~r ea, n U<| fOl . tho ~ time at the Duke of York's Theatre London, on March 12, of this year' «>ot with ll* ~u,st favourable ■on It w,ll hj, presented for Urn hi-ft time m the colonies during the present Auckland season. The p,',!

.gramme hcixvwlll be witnessed by the British loooballera. Tllc hox ~. ' ('oloni? I^ 6 " n" 1 te o ' ,e «t the t-olonial I ,„„„ j,,, pO , ~;l ls ,„ j It is ii„ui„.(i i„ mMtlw , ~ fell* curtain will not rise till 830 P.m. in order tl,«t the British football representatives, to whom the "uinaffement. has extended an invitation, iu ;1 y attend.