"THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9093, 20 May 1908, Page 6

"THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL."

Mr Julius Knight, Miss Ola Humphrey, and a company of dramatic artists will appear here for one night only on Friday next, at the Tuwn Hall, when Orozy-Barstuw's romantic play "the Scarlet Pimpernel" will be staged. After a record season in Sydney the company, who havij just concluded a phenomenal sjuso ) in Auckland, where "The Sea -let Pimpernel" wad staged for ni.io night-. The play is a story of ljve, of i i rigue, of contempt, a setting fortn of the deed 3 of one who worked for hid fellow men, who risked his life as one likes to believe an Englishman will for the sake of the utter stranger, and accounted it but sport. Mr Julius Knight in the title role ia Bc.iJ to be at his bes*, and his remarkable versatility haa lull siiup.- n the intricate double character or Court Fop and leader of the gallant band of Englishmen who performed such daring deeds in rescuing the aristocrats of France from the gullotine. The acting of Miss Ola Humphrey as Lady Blakeley is highly spoken of. The box plan is open at Miss Rive's.