AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 269, 23 March 1911, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

HUGH J. WARD'S FAREWELL.

Hugh J. Ward and his popular associates make a farewell visit to New, Plymouth on Monday next at the Theatre Royal, when they stage the farce comedy ''Seven Days" for one night only. Billed as the joint work of' two dramatists, the new play is in reality ail acting edition of the amusing story "When a Man Marries," by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, the American authoresses of "The Circular Staircase" and "The Man in Lower Ten." Save that the Japanese butler does not appear in the cast, the plan of the story lias been closely followed, and the roof-garden episodes may be said to have been dumped out of the book on to the .stage. Apart from the domestic element, and what is called a "trial engagement,'' the fun hinges on a dinner, which is given by Jimmy Wilson and which ends in everyone heng quarantined on account of the illness of the Japanese, who is supposed to have small-pox. In the play, it is explained that the trouble over an ollicial notification on yellow paper and a Japanese servant enmeshed and mixed up ten respectable members of society and a policeman. There are three acts, the llrst in the drawing room, the second in the kitchen, and the third in the roof-garden of a Riverside home; here all the characters of the play are seen. Miss Grace I'alotta, Miss Celia fiilhoni, Miss Maud Chetwynd, Messrs Hugh J. Ward, Aubrey Mallilea.u, Reg. Wykeliam, Robert Greig and 11. H. Wallace,