MISS TITTELL BRUNE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81876, 29 October 1906, Page 2

MISS TITTELL BRUNE.

g "DOROTHY' VERNON." it This evening Miss Tittell Bruno i- will appear in the Theatre Royal supc ported by Mr. Thomas Kingston and i- Mr. J. C. Williamson's powerful e Dramatic Company. Mr. Paul ; Kescer's adaptation of Charles Major's .- popular novel "Dorothy Vernon uf i- Haddon Hail" will be presented, and r it is said to be full of good things, t The plot turns upon the love between t the hot headed daughter of the House y of Vernon, and Sir John Manners, t son of the Duke of Rutland. The I two famalies had long been at deadt ly enmily and the acquaintance be- - iween the lovers began through an 1 insolent je s t of Manners, ».>•- ,■ anger Sir George \V-- ■'"' i 0 - the daughter's 1- .- ,um > claimed t a twentv-* "" ln f uln ' men t of , t | le * . 'Wo years' pledge between ; ] lathers and that their children l saould wed. But what commenced - in jesl goes on in earnest, and the , two young people find their course of i true love beset with maniy difficulties. - in the creation and demolition of which, the treachery of ihc lady's cousin, who is her officially recognised i suitor, is much concerned, as also is ■■ the quarrel between Onee n Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, and the heroine's now- vigorous fits of temper Miss Tittell Bruno's interpretation of the character of Dorothy Vernon is said to be her greatest achievement since her arrival in Australasia. Hie play had an excellent reputation when first staged in America, and its reception throughout Australia re- ' cently was coincident with its triumph • I in London. | j