"THE BREED OF THE TRESHAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9603, 24 September 1909, Page 5

"THE BREED OF THE TRESHAMS.

Of "The Breed of the Treshams" to be produced by Mr J. C. William- J son on Tuesday next, for one night only, it is said that theie is one speech in it that secures tor Lieutenant Reresby the sympathy of the audience, and guarantees to him, the kintfly feeling that is necessary should float over the footlights—that intangible something—that steels an actor to do his best. "The Rat,' as Reresby, the Royalist officer is known, is really a dog with a bad name. He was namless when his life began, and his father's memory is execrated by him, and not only on that account. He tells the whole story of his bitterness to his half brother, and it is this speech which made Martin Harvey, the English actor, famous. The play comes with a splendid reputation as 1 a fine literary effort full of excitement and well knit. There is strong emotional interest in the scenes in the arrest, search, and drumhead trial of Reresby. A dramatic circumstance of the trial is that Lord Dorrington. who presides, is ignorant the chief traitor in the conspiracy in wh'ch "The Rat" is involved te a member of his own family, and of one of the judge's sitting with him. The box plan will be opened at Miss Rive's this morning at 9 o'clock