THE FATAL WEDDING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8168, 26 June 1906, Page 5

THE FATAL WEDDING.

A good house greeted the production in the Town Hall, last evening, of "The Fatal Wedding." The plot centres round Mabel, the wife of Howard Wilson, "a wealthy club man," whom the evil minds of Robert Curtis and Cora Williams devote themselves to alienating from his wife. A divorce is secured, of the cause for which Mabel is wholly innocent:, and the unhappy woman is deprived by the law of her children. With the help of the quaint servants Bridget'and Toto, however, she secretly carries off these, and lives in much poverty in an attic in a New York tenement. Here she is discovered by Curtis and Cora, whose machinations are, however, mostly foiled, although the two eventually.suaoeed in restoring the children to the father, who, much to Cora's chagrin, gives the mother free a-jcess to her apparently dying boy. The reoovery by Mabel and her allies of an important letter after an exciting incident among preoipitbus rooks, with the villain at hand to menace them, leads to the interruption of Wilson's marriage with Cora, the latter's death at the hand of Curtis —and the wedding maroh in honour of the re-united pair. As the heroine Miss May Congdon was all that aould be desired. Her acting throughout was artistic. Mr Charles Vane gave a skilful rendering ot the character of Howard Wilson. Mr Herbert Leigh aoted the role of Robert Curtis well. ' As Cora Williams, Mips Dina Cooper was particularly good. Little Maisie Posner, as the "Little Mother," was capital. She is an exceedingly olever child, and her acting was repeatedly applauded. Three very cleverly played charauters were "The German Janitor" (Mr C. R. Stanford), "Bridget*' (Miss Amy Singleton), and Toto, the French Waiter" (Mr Tom Cannon). All the children who take part in the "Tin Can Band" scene carried out their parts well. They are all immense, from little Queenie Williams ito the olever Mpllie Wilson and | Maggie Dickinson. The piece was exceptionally well staged.