THE FATAL WEDDING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8164, 22 June 1906, Page 6

THE FATAL WEDDING.

"The Fatal Wedding" will, be, presented for the first time in Master-j ton on Monday night, June 25th, at the Town Hall.- An excellent company is associated with tie production, and besides the English principals, Mr Charles Vane and Miss May Oongdon, the company includes suoh well-known favourites as Miss Dina Cooper (late of the KnigbtJeffries Company), Amy Singleton (a leading light of Musgrove's S'Sweet Nell" Company), Messrs Herbert Leigh, a popular member of the Knight-Jerffies Company, Tom Can nam, ofthe"J.P." Company, O. R. Stanford, and Oily Deering, two old-time favourites,and Harry Maolennan, of the Fnwley Company. The important part of the -Little Mother is entrusted to little Maisie. Posner, whose performance has been spoken of everywhere .as, finished and clever. Amongst the many important scenes in"Tbe Fatal Wedding" are those in which the children, to the number of' thirty, go through a series of delightful specialities, including the famous "lin-oau band." A Sydney writer, referring to the first production, of VThe Fatal Wedding" in Sydney, remarked:—"lt is very questionable if the Criterion Theatre has ever been so crowded as it was on Saturday night, when Messrs Meynell and Gunn presented "The Fatal Wedqing". Expectation ran high as to what the new play—the reports of which had been so glowing—would be like, and it had not been long In progress when its dramatic merit was apparent The dominant feature of the play is the introduction of a child character, which is cleverly drawn,and which U admirably aoted. The ( impersonator is little Maisie Posner, a bnild of about 10 years old, and her conception of the part is undoubtedly' clever. She speaks her lines clearly and intelligently, and her movements are easy and unaffected. In her scenes of pathos, no less than in her lighter moments, she was equally at home, and the audience was not slow in recognising her excel? ent characterstudy, The box plan is at Miss A. E. Rive's,