WELLINGTON DRAMATIC CLUB.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2919, 15 September 1908, Page 6

WELLINGTON DRAMATIC CLUB.

"THE GUVNOR." Ther-e was a fair audience at the Town Hall, when the Wellington Dramatic Company staged the comedy "The Guv'nor." The piece was . staged well, and the acting all through was of a high order. The audience were unstinted in their praise, and the comedy went with a ] swing from the riae of the curtain to the fall. It is seldom that a betteracted comedy is seen by a Masterton audience. "The Guv'nor" depends , for its fun on the misunderstanding of an old deaf boat builder, the jealousy-prompted jumping to conclusions of a retired confectioner (Mr Butterscotch), and the tangled love affairs of their respective sons and daughters. Confusion is worse confounded by an ancient Peeping Tom in the person or one Jellioce (a retired pickle manufacturer), wh6 foments the trouble'by his tell-tale proclivities; by a bucolic groom from Yorkshire, who is mistaken for somebody else, and by the eccentricities of "the Mac Toddy."Mr Norman A'ttkcn as Mr Butterscotch had a difficult character to portray, but he did full justice to it. As Theodore Macclesfield, the boat builder at Putney, Mr D. Kelly was very good, aa was Mr W. H. Bedell as Jellicoe. Mifs Ivy Scott as Aurelia, and Miss Nellie Dallon as Kate, Miss Perry as Mrs Macclesfield, and Miss Lena Lennox as Carrie were excellent in their respective roles. The rest of the characters were in capable hands, and were as follow-—Freddy Butterscotch, Mr Kenneth Aitken; Theodore Macclesfield, junr., Mr E. B. Russell; Gregory, Mr Charles Archer; The Mac Toddy, Mr n. Edwards; No. 3407, Mr D. M. Williams; Ullage, Mr Hiroid Vernon ; Mr Vellum, Mr iidv.aui Mack.