MEYNELL AND GUNN COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 13 July 1908, Page 5

MEYNELL AND GUNN COMPANY.

The Rupert Clarke-John WrenMeynell end Gunn Company will stage "A Beggar on Horseback," at the Town Hall to - night. Harcourt Beatty is cast as Marley Due de .Journey, a soldier of fortune, and is daid to carry out the role in excellent style, while Miss Madge Mcintosh, as Lady Mary Dudley, is equally good. The first act deals with the kidnapping of the Duke of Stanes, in Spain, where the Jacobites are hiding, owing to his refusal to join in their plots, just as they are about to proceed to England to raise a rebellion. The conspirators take to England in his place the impnvex - - ished Marley, Due de Tourney, who bears a marked rcemblancp to the Duke of Staines. The second ict shows the meeting of the Jacobites in England, where they pass off Marley as Staines in order to get the friends of that nobleman on their side. In the midst of their councils they are betrayed, and the scene ends with a great fight on the staircase, just as Staines, who has escaped from Spain, returns home. He is arrested ps a conspirator and condemned to death, respite his protest ations that it was not he who took part with the Jacobites. In the final act Max-ley returns in time to save Staines from the scaffold, and confesses to King George that it was he who had been masquerading as the Duke.