"THE LITTLE STRANGER."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8322, 2 January 1907, Page 4

"THE LITTLE STRANGER."

Messrs Meynell, Gunn, and Varna's New English Comedy Company are due at the* Town Hall on Tuesday netx, January Bth, when "The Little Stranger" will make his bow to a Masterton audience. A Dunedin paper says:—"The author of the play has conceived another idea in the romance of topsy-turveydom. All natural laws are waived, and he asks his audience to look at the nursery, as it were, through the wrong end of the telescope. The hero in "The Little Stranger" is a cooing baby' in the arms of his nurse., who afterwardsb ecomes a holy terror in the household to which he belongs. The clever boy, Willie Park, who such a success of the title role' of 'The Little Stranger,' is able to claim quite an experience on the stage already, though he is only nine years old. He rfist appeared at the mature age of three in a performance of 'Madame Butterfly'; later on he was at the Adelphi in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' and then played 'Millie's Baby' at the Granville Theatre. The original 'Little Stranger' in London was Ewdard Garratt, another boy, whose performanece was mainly responsible for ; the great success of the comedy in England and America. Willie Parke was - Garratt' understudy, and acted so cleverly in the capacity that Mr Michael Morton, the author of the play, selected him for the part in the Australasian tour of Meynell, Gunn, and Varna's new company." "The Little Stranger" has just concluded most successful seasons in Wellintgon, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The box plan is now open at Miss Eive's. Popular prices will be chaged.