"THE LITTLE STRANGER."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8324, 4 January 1907, Page 7

"THE LITTLE STRANGER."

Full particulars are advertised elsewhere as to Messrs Meynell, Gunn and Varna's new English Comedy Company, who will appear for one night only in the Town Hall on January Bth. In reviewing the first performance in Wellington, where a record season was encountered, a contemporary wrote: "Nearly everybody enjoys a good laugh. It is not every playwright who can be relied upon to give it. But you can in this case. Michael Morton, who is responsible for 'The Little Stranger,' has an uncommonly droll turn of mind. Shortly, it consists in having a man-midget substituted for a three-year-old infant. Whereas the real child cannot even speak, its impersonator is an old hand at that, and many other accomplishments of ap.ordinary full-grown man. The bogus baby scares the real infant's mother, and nurse, and grandfather, and grandmother, and all their friends into hysterics when he takes charge of the household. Mixed up with the general fun of it all there is a deal of burlesque spiritualistic experimenting in which 'The Little Stranger' plays a prominent part." The box plan will be on view at Miss Rive's this morning.