AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

i J HOME, SWEET HOME." As might have been expected from , the title, "Home, Sweet Home" is an i immensely emotional drama, and its salient features suffered not one iota last' night in its production by the Allan Hamilton Dramatic Co. The scene is laid in a fishing village and coastguard station. i'roiii a wreck an old lifeboat captain saves a baby girl, and adopts iter into his home. She grows in beauty, and is loved by all, and the fa\ ored suitor is the old coastguardsman's son, who is ignorant of the fact that she is a daughter of the Duke o'f Ancas'ter, though the old man has ' learned it. The marriage takes place, I \ and soon poverty knocks at the door. 1 , Rich folk visit'the young wife,-and es- ■ trange her from her life amongst the lisher folk. She is discovered by her , father, and deceived by his secretary for < his own ends, -But in the midst of { gaiety she receives a call from her dying . child, and returns home just in time to save tlm child's life, and to see the villain punished as lie deserves, whilst she and her husband enter into the bliss of Home, Sweet Home." Right through I the piece the strains of the never-dyin« I song arc interwoven, and in the hands of a talented troupe the production was splendid. As is not. uncommon in 'llama, the first act was rather Ion"- P diiiwn aniljirosy n3 fhe story unfolded. J ' llif curtain l-nsp 011 a more interesting nf second act, and from this point tho in- 1" (crest was unswerving, and the theme 80 "'ithered additional strength and fire I here was humor in fast sufficient on >ll. of titv to counteract the tendencv to be- 11,1 come depressing. Several of the play- V 0 era hnd hsavv parts, and particularly so Sir Robert Tnman fas Stenhen Armit- ■ •■•"0) ail, 1 Miss Klmdvah Cooper ( M A more manly hero or a more

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