AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 141, 23 September 1910, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

"THE GIRL FROM RECTOR'S." Speaking of "The Girl from Rector's," to be staged here for the first time tonight, at the Theatre Royal, the Melbourne Punch says:'"The Girl from Rector's,' introduced by Hugh J. Ward's popular company on Saturday evening to an audience rocking with laughter, is a diluted French farce of four acts, seething with fun. The first is a smile, the second a scream, the third a chuckle, and the last a riot,. The plot cavorts briskly round 'The' Girl,' who, in odd moments, is the frigid wife of a probreaking loose from her matrimonial ties and having a gay, wild and jolly time in little old New York as the President of the Night Owls' Club, and also as the affinity of Dicky O'Shaugnessy, a young bachelor Johnnie, who suffers from to« much 'Girl' and champagne and too many outings with the boys. A wierd old professor, cousin of the Dicky Bird, persuades him to court a sweet damsel on his. the professor's, behalf, but Dicky promptly falls in love with her himself, and they -become engaged. Then follow a series of ludicrous complications, in which 'The Girl,' the Dicky Bird, the Professor, the Judge, Dick's mother-in-law, and the very recent young wife ar6 mixed up in an apparently hopeless tangle, from which is evolved a succession of ludicrous situations, which only serve to-make confusion worse and worse, till the final soning out and happy ending. The whole thing is an irresponsible burst of bustling frivolity with a French flavoring, who-i h. is piquantly agreeable without broadening into vulgarity. Mr. Hugh J. Ward's mwry band of conspirators against gloom handles 'The Girl' with gleeful brilliance. Summed up—'Tis a niK'th provoking diversion, 'The Girl from Rector's.'''