"A ROYAL DIVORCE."
Playgoers are lookiug forward to Monday evening next, when Mr J. C. Williamson's company are to present "A Royal Divorce." The scenes of history rise before one as the drama proceeds. Napoieon loves Josephine, but ambition sweeps aside love, and he separates from his wife. The Empress is called upon to give up the love and ;companionship of her husband that he might wed another. The sacrifice is made, and as the dark days throw their shadows over he sees ever near him one gleam of hope in the love of Josephine. Napoleon finally .stands broken-hearted on the deck "as he hears of his banishment to St. Helena. Josephine pleads for the impossible—that she might accompany hirn—and as they part the curtain falls, but only to rise on the final scene of all, that in which Napoleon, forsaken, banished, hopeless, alone, stando on St. Helena and gazes with infinite sadness over the ocean. Some striking and magnificent tableaux are introduced in "A Royal Divoroe," including-,"The Retreat from Moscow," "The Battle of Waterloo," and "Alone on the Rock of St. Helena." The box plan is at Hollings.'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7937, 10 January 1906, Page 6
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189"A ROYAL DIVORCE." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7937, 10 January 1906, Page 6
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