ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 5 February 1912, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

" THE SPECKLED BAND." ■ J. C, Williamson's specially selected company:of dramatic'stars are to produce Conan DoyleY latest dramatic success, Band," for one night only, in the Theatre Royal .on Friday next January 9/ The adventure of "The Speckled Band" is already' jcnown in narrative; form, to the enornious. circle of readers eagerly followed the career of Sherlock Holmes, and While they may derive, a, particular pleasure I from seeing, the story brought to life, as it were, it is perhaps the lest.proof of the exceptionally satisfactory manner in which a story has for once been, turned into a play that no such previous acquaintance with the plot is implied in the work of the dramatist. If one had never heard of Sherlock Holmes before it would detract nothing from the value and interest an d excitement of "The Speckled Band" as it is developed in the three acts of the drama. It .Absolute, ly and entirely dissimilar to any Sherlock Holmes play that has yet been presented and is undoubtedly an improvement on the class of play to wkich it belongs, ine box plan is to be opened at Collier's to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.