AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7994, 4 December 1905, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

STItAXD COMEDY COMPANY. "THE J.P." The plans fcr "llic J.P.' season opened at McKinncn Bain's on Saturday morning. An exceptional heavy demand for seats was recorded. The final encores accorded a popular production in London have scarcely eased before its Australian rights have beea purchased by some enterpris ng entrepreneur and staged in an antipodean city. Ths latest move in this directioa is the acquirement of the bow farce-comedy success from the Strand Theatre, London, entitled "The .J.IV The success of this piece in London has been phenomenal. In London alone it ran for over 400 nights'at the Strand Theatre, wh Ist 't has lieen continually touring the proviiiL<n top the past four years. The piece will be pu-sentcti umlnr ar- \ lui'inent. with Mr .1. C. Will son. Already 'Tke J.P.' is a loa<lng topic of conversation throughout fhf ,toirn. It is almost ft safo proposition to 1 assort that crowded houses will be recorded on <-\'- rf the compnny's stay. Kofor•*ing to Ihp j'NM'forniancc of Mr I>allas and Miss Florence Lloyd, the star of tho combination, a leading Mrlljourno daily remarks : "Mr Dallas has a type of character in the exposition of which ho positively nv Ti-ls. IlisJ.P. is a silly Satyr, iyaskj ing with foolish infatuation m tho smiles of beauty, irrepivs.siljle in his I gallantry by any amount of abuso anil ill-fortune, «ha!!ow 'in cunning, ready in n-courwe, and at. bottom net ill-natured, ifr Dallas's api>earanco in the part is alone suH'teirnt to U]>-«<-t tin 1 gravity <»f beholders. . . . Mi«-s Kloreiive Lloyd seems tohavo been born to wear Min unnn-nlion-abl<'S, so. coini»b»telv, when assuming them. d<H'S she diverrt herself <»f the attiibutes of h<r kvx. It is not t\ travesty, but a tranKformation. Miss Lloyd d"*s not nn-rcly assunw the costume of a young man ; she gvts into the skin of the sex, and reproduces a purity of condition, with all his tricks of carriage and demeanor, and ' all his charactoriat ic gvstures ami attitudes. The illusion ib con-» sf«quently complr'to." The wrason Is limited to two nights only, commencing Hi Thursday next, Dec. 7, nt tho Theatre Royal.