AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 373, 26 April 1910, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THE NIGHT OF THE I'ARTY. GEORGE WILLIAMSON'S COMEDY LUMP AM.

Messrs. Rupert Clarke and Clyde Meynell will present to New Plymouth theatregoers on Friday, .May 13, Mr. George Willoughby's new English Farcical Comedy Company, who will produce Mr. Weedon Urossmith's great comedy, "The Night of the Party." David James, the comedian, whom Werrbm Orossmith (t'.ie most famous of E.ignsh comedians, and the author of "The Night of the Party") himself selected to enact the principal role in that play, is an actor of personality and individuality. He has methods of ills own. He is not a conventional comedian, who wears himself out in making the audience laugh, and for the latter part of the play "tails off" to ineffectiveness. He "keeps the ball rolling" throughout the play, and is as funny at the finish as he is at the beginning. His droll personality conduces to laughter, and he makes the audience put on that inceptive mood right at the commencement of the piece which carries them along with him all it he Time he is on the stage. It is said ot David James by .Clement Scott, in the London Daily Telegraph, that he would "make us laugh in the dunest of comedies: The leading lady. Miss Mab. Paul, is a noted • "ibeauty actress" on the London stage. She was selected by Sir Herbert Tree to play Melantho to his Ulysses at His Majesty's Theatre. London. She quite justified' Sir Herbert's expectations as the beautiful and crafty handmaiden to Penelope, who spies on her mistress and causes her undoing, and rebels at j menial tasks when she can't "touch the | lips of the princes." Following the engagement came a two-years' association with Sir Herbert Tree'at His Majesty's. Miss Paul will play the original part ia "The Night of the Party."