AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 8 February 1907, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE COAL KING." Mr ('lunlrs llollmvuv'* dramatic elm lining yoiinjf Australian actress, Miss Ifcati rice Holloway. are announced to opou a season of (wo nights in New Plymouth next .Monday, when tile mining drama, written by l-?riu-sL Martin anil l'ewlass Llewellyn, "The Coal King," will lie presented. The const ruction nf the piece is more (hnn ordinarily persuasive. There is a semblance of possibility a,bctnt the action of 'tho play, which makes it a cleverer tvpe of melodrama than that usually presented. There is less concession domanded of the intellect anil less appeal purely to the imagination than is iMiallv common to melodrama. The adinn of the new piece is brisk nn.l comnicndablv concise. His lull of incident and color, and it prepresses from scenic triumph to .-ecnic triumph with an almosl exhilinmtiu;? effect,. The s.orv i- an old one in n new guise, lint lh,| guise is eminently a, satisfaclory one. On Tuesday there will lie presented, liy special arrange, meat with Mr .1. 0. Williamson, the inten-ely exciting four-act drama, "The Shadows of a (Ireal City."* There i- an undeniable sagacity 'in ganginjr imbiie lasic, and it cannot be doubted that Mr diaries llolloway, wi:o has a long theatrical career behind him, should lie able to gunge the t ; i^: '"I playgoers t.i a nicciv. The revival of -The Shadows of'a Creal City" is more than judicious. Who thai can re call liie late. Cratlan 15i.»„s 11 ~ Hiddy It does not hanlcerT.i see 1 lie same character a<oi hi * Tii fhu bands of Mr .loiin I'. O'Neill the iionrtraval will lose nothing, for his performance is said to lie inimitable I'n pillar prices uf'adniission, It/, >_>/ and 1/, are to be charged. The box plan for to'"" and orchestral stalls is now open nt the Colonial Piano warehouse. ■ ■