ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 16, 13 July 1911, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

GEORGE MARLOW'S DRAMATIC COMPANY. On Tuesday, July 18, at the Theatre Royal, the great London success, "The Bad Girl of the Family," will be staged for the first time in New Plymouth. This .piece consists of four acts and 18 scenes, and the story opens with a quarrel between the sisters Moore, both of whom love young Gordon, who is the son. of a wealthy and unscrupulous money-lender. The love of Bess has outruil her wisdom, and her sister denounces her to her parents, with the result that she is cast out. Young Gordon has no further use for her, and hie father plans a great match for him and Lady Erskine, the daughter of a penniless Earl, who has fallen into the moneylender's clutches. Gladys Erskine,, however, has lost her heart to Lieutenant Dick Marsh, and she declines to be'sold like one of her father's horses. Dick also haa some very natural objections to the transaction, and the struggle goes Dick is called away to join his ship, and for a time the home is so much in the hands of young Gordon, that he leads Lady Erskine to the altar. But Bess substitutes herself, and so becomes the wife of her deceiver, much to the chagrin of the latter. Even this does not end the machinations of the Gordons, for a chain of circumstances enables them to have Marsh arrested for the murder of Lord Erskine, and he is condemned to death. True to the last of her love, Glnd.v's weds him in the dark shadows of old Dartmoor, and they then part, apparently for ever. But, again fortune changes, and everything ends happily. The above is a brief outline of tiie plot. There are some very sensational scenes, such as "The Shopgirls' Dormitory," "The interrupted Marriage," "The Police Raid," '•The Bride's Chamber," "The Great PillowFight, Shopgirls v. Police," "The Exchange af Brides at the Altar," "The Sensational Escape from Dartmoor," and others too numerous to mention. The box plan opens at 11. Collier mid Music Warehouse on Saturday morning at 8.30, where tlay sale tickets may also he obtained.