AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 77, 27 April 1909, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

MEYXELL & GUXN COY.-TO-XIGHT.

Playgoers of Xew Plymouth are reminded that the above clever company will commence their season iu the Xew -Plymouth Theatre Royal this evening. Their opening production will he a splendid new Australian mining drama, of most profound interest, "A Miner's Trust," written by Mr. Jo. Smith, It is said to be one of the best plays ever produced fa Xew Zealand. Allan Trengrove and Jack Howard have made their pile, as "dividing mates," on an Australian goldfield, and Howard is about to go home and marry his sweetheart that he left there ten years ago, and who has since lost her sight. On the journey Of the mates to tin; coast Howard s murdered by a French reeidiviste, and Trengrove promises his dying mate to exchange names with him and. go to England in his stead and marry the Wind girl; how Trengrove finds on arrival that a fortune has been left <o him, and on the strength of the report that it is he and not Howard who was inunfered, is being claimed by a distant relative; how he devotes himself, under his assumed name of Howard, to his; friend's blind sweetheart, and yet finds himself more attracted to her cousin, ' also beloved by the claimant to his fortune j how suspicion of murder and impersonation cloud his life for a time, and' how happiness and fortune are reached for the lovers by the self-denial of the blind girl. These are the materials that the drama is worked upon. ' To-morrow night, "Two Little Sailor Boys," .Thursday '-The Little Breadwinner, and on Friday night "The Stopmother" will be staged. The box plan is On view at the Collier Piano Co.