THE FATAL WEDDING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8162, 20 June 1906, Page 5

THE FATAL WEDDING.

The New Zealand tour of Messrs Meynell and Gunn's Fatal Wedding Company was inaugurated at His Majesty's Theatre, Auobland, on Monday, June 4th. In consequence of the phenomenal success of the play in Melbourne and Sydney, the season in each town will be brief. The Fatal Wedding is reported to be one of the most successful dramatic productions ever produced in the colonies. For weeks at Melbourne, the Melbourne Theatre Royal, and then at Sydney, hundreds were turned away nightly. The Company is reported to be one of the strongest dramatio combinations that has ever visited Australasia. The members of the Company include Miss May Congdon and Messrs Charles Vane, Herbert Leigh, C.. R. Stanford, Tom Cannam, Harry MoLennan, Oily Deering, and little Maisie Posner. Over 40 trained children are inoluded in the Company. The children's soenes with their delightful and unique songs and dances are said to be features'of the production The Company is to appear in Maaterton on Monday, June 25th. Of the two English artists in the "Fatal Wedding" Company,. Miss May Uongdon was orgtnally educated at the Brussels Conservatorium of Musio, but her preference for the stage induced hereabout six years ago to take up dramatio work, and she has sinoe played Peggy In "Mice and Men," as well as leading parts in "A Marriage of Convenience," "Sunday," and many Shakespearian pieces. Mr Charles Vane was with his regiment in India in 1885, when "the sweet uses of amateur theatricals" taught him his powers as an aotor. He then went to England, joined Mr F. R. Benson's Shakespearian Company, and did a great deal of useful work with various managers all over the country, and also visited South Africa. In 1901 he was with MiBS Ellen Terry, and was then introduced to Sir Henry Irving, who included him in his. Company at the Lyceum Theatre., Mr Vane then toured the provinoes with the Irving combination, and went to America, where he subsequently supported E. H. Sothern in "Hamlet" and "If 1 Were King." After a seound visit to South Africa, the traveller joined Mr Jjhn Hard in England, and during his stay successfully produoed a one aot play of his own.