AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

" EVERYIWOMAN." "Everywoman," a play which has been running continuously in America for three seasons, and in Sydney and Melbourne since December last, will be presented for the first time in New Plymouth at the Theatre Royal on Monday night next. For the production of "Everywoman" the J. C. Williamson management have organised a powerful combination of artists, numbering over 00 people, including the famous actress, Miss Hilda Spong, who was personally engaged by Mr. Williamson for the part of "Everywoman" during his recent visit to America. The plan will .be opened on Friday next at Collier's at 8 a.m.

(Walter Browne, the author of "Everyvvoman," died on the eve of the first production of this piece in New York. In his introduction to the play he thus described the motif that is the basis: "Since the days of chivalry, when knights clashed steel for their lady loves and went on crusades to prove their prowess, while they remained secluded in cloisters or in moated castles, womankind, of which the title role of this play is intended to be a type, has grown more self-assertive and more bold. To every woman who nowadays listens to flattery, goes in quest of love, and openly lays siege to the hearts of men, this play may provide a timely warning. To every man it may suggest an admonition, the text of which is contained in the epilogue to the play: 'Be merciful, be just, be fair to eeviy woman, everywhere. Her faults are many. Nobody's the blame.'" Miss Hilda Spong, who will take the role of "Everywoman," is, with Margaret Anglin, Catherine Grey and Julia Marlowe, described as being one of the best actresses in America. Miss Spong will be supported by William Desmond, who appeared so successfully as "Alias Jimmy Valentine," and a company of over fifty artists, including Misses Elsie Chimes. Dorothy dimming, Enid Bennett, Bene Gold, Emma Temple, Cissie Jamieson, Florrie Ferguson, Madge Griffiths, Rene Tasvvell, Hetty' Patey, Florrie Elsie, Glory Chandler, Eva Brown, Vi Martin, Vic Scott. Messrs. John Ralston, A. J. Patrick, George Millar, Robert Whyte, junr., J. A. Williams, William Lockhart, Herbert Leigh, Robert Beeston, 0. Cushing, T. Curtain, Leslie Barclay.